Tukur to Obasanjo: Please Don’t Go, We need You to Win 2015 Elections

Posted by African Examiner Featured, Femi Kehinde, Latest Headlines, News Saturday, January 11th, 2014

By Femi Kehinde

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has pleaded with former President Olusegun Obasanjo not to leave the party.

PDP national Chairman, Bamanga Tukur

President Obasanjo had written Tukur in a page letter intimating him of his decision to leave PDP saying the party has negated the principles of morality, decency and discipline in its decisions, especially as it affects the South West.

In a statement on Saturday, Tukur said the PDP still needs Obasanjo’s experience to help her win the 2015 general elections.

Tukur’s letter reads:

“It is an honour that you deemed it fit and proper to intimate me with an issue important to your mind and our party in the South-west zone. It is my wish and prayer that such cordial and positive relationship will continue between your good self; former President and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of our great party on one hand, and my humble self, the National Chairman of our party on the other hand.

“Buruji Kasamu came to limelight in politics as a result of the role he played in the politics of Ogun state where both of you come from. He later became a rallying point in the South-west following the Courts’ Orders in the series of cases brought about as a result of disagreements among leaders of the party in the South-west, and Ogun State in particular.

“In my opinion, Buruji became a rallying point because of the absence of a zonal executive in the South-west. This vacuum in the South-west has made him the person to whom many members in all the chapters of the party in the zone approach for one form of assistance or the order.

“We came in when we were threatened with contempt of court charges for not obeying the court’s order to dissolve the South-west zonal executive and remove some officers of the party.

“We complied with the court’s orders because of our belief in the rule of law and to avoid consequences of disobeying such orders.”