The alleged resolve by majority of the governors of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to remove the embattled National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, forced the Presidency to suspend the meeting of the Board of Trustees (BoT) and National Executive Committee (NEC), it was learnt.
It also emerged that President Goodluck Jonathan wanted the party leadership to have more time to persuade warring Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State and his Jigawa State counterpart, Alhaji Sule Lamido, to return fully to the PDP before the NEC meeting.
The NEC meeting, earlier fixed for Wednesday, January 8, will now hold on January 16, with the BoT meeting scheduled for January 15 and the National Caucus meeting slated for January 14.
It was gathered that the Presidency got strong evidence that the anti-Tukur forces, led by a South-South governor and a minister, who is also from the South-South, compelled the party hierarchy to postpone the meetings.
