PDP suspends its former chairman, Bamanga Tukur

The National Working Committee of the PDP has
suspended its immediate past Chairman, Alhaji
Bamanga Tukur. According to a statement released
this afternoon, Alhaji Tukur was suspended for
taking the party to court without 'exhausting the
internal redress avenues'.
Mr Tukur had recently dragged the party and its
current chairman Adamu Mu'azu to court, asking
the court to declare his resignation as the party
chairman in January null and void. Find the
statement after the cut...
The National Working Committee of the Peoples
Democratic (PDP) at its 395th meeting held
yesterday, December 3, 2014 reviewed recent
national developments as they affect the party.
Among others, the NWC deliberated on the court
case instituted against the National Chairman of
the Party, Ahmed Adamu Mu'azu by the former
National Chairman, Dr. Bamanga Tukur. The NWC
reasoned that for instituting a claim and counter
claim in suit FHC/ABJ /821/2014; Gurin vs PDP &
3 others without first exploring and exhausting the
party's internal mechanism of redress and for
attempting to stop the forthcoming National
Convention to nominate the party's presidential
candidate as well as regularize the position of the
National Chairman and other members of the
National Working Committee is unacceptable.
The NWC hereby suspends Dr. Bamanga Tukur
and Aliyu Abuba Gurin for one month and refers
them to the National Disciplinary Committee for
infringing on section 58(1)(a)( b)( h)( l) of the PDP
Constitution 2012( as amended)
Barr. Victor Kwon
National Legal Adviser