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Alhaji Bamanga Tukur,
former PDP Chairman
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Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has described the emergence of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) at the centre in the 2015 general elections as people’s quest
for alternative to a failed party. He said, “Democracy is government of the people
by the people for the people. So, if the PDP fails to deliver on its promises,
people will go to the alternative. Change is always good, provided it is going
to bring better alternative.” The former
PDP chairman stated this while featuring on Guest of the Week, a programme on Kaduna-based
Liberty Radio, yesterday. Tukur also blamed the PDP’s woes on lack of internal
democracy.
The Nation report
continues:
According to him, certain
people in the party didn’t want him to practice internal democracy that he was
preaching.
He noted that the APC, by
making all the elements relevant and allowing the people choose their leaders
through elections allowed the democratic system to prevail for the interest of
allý.
Speaking on his ordeal
that forced him out as National Chairman of the party, Tukur cleared the air
that, “Jonathan did not insist I leave the party, there are people in the PDP
who felt I should not practice what I preach because discipline is very
important, following the laws you established, is very important, why you do
not want to follow the laws you established and you don’t change them, you have
problem.
“President Jonathan could
not protect me due to the powers of the governors, the governors are very
powerful and therefore, if you do not do what they want, you are done away with
and I believe nothing can be done to them.
ý”I was accused of being
a virus in PDP, and I did not deny it, I told them I am a virus for good
governance, virus for internal democracy, virus for equity and justice, I hope
that ývirus will continue,” he explained.
On the leadership style
on President Muhammadu Buhari, the former PDP Chairman threw his weight behind
the President and asked Nigerians to allow Buhari lead the nation at his
calculated pace.
“I salute Muhammadu
Buhari because he has integrity. He believes in discipline, he believes in
fighting corruption and believes in good governance because, the only way we
can go forward and be respected in the community of nations is by coming together
and carrying our people along”, he said.
Speaking on insecurity in
the north east, he said, “In 2013, when Boko Haram element started I said to
Nigerians, ýif the country is attacked, all Nigerians must come together and
attack the elements and indicate their principles including, strengthening both
military and para-military defences, dialogue, so that they understand why they
are doing what they are doing and diplomacy, by making sure they government
talks to Niger, Chad, Mali and Cameroon.”
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