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  • ‘I only came to inform Jonathan of our defection to APC’, says Wamakko

    • Akpabio: Losing Wamakko to APC is not an issue

    The Sokoto State Governor, Aliyu Wamakko yesterday explained that he was at the Presidential Villa to formerly inform President Goodluck Jonathan of the defection of himself and the other four governors to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Wamakko, who arrived for the meeting at the First Lady Conference room with his Kano State counterpart, Rabiu Kwankwaso, stayed for the about
    five hours meeting with President Jonathan and other fourteen PDP governors.

    Speaking with State House correspondents when the meeting ended around 2.45a.m., he said that the forum provided him the opportunity to say the truth concerning their grievances which led to their defection.

    But he did not respond to the question whether he was pressurized to return back to the PDP by the President.

    He said: “Well the meeting went on very well because some of us came here as governors … in PDP matter and our position has been known. On
    behalf of the five of us, I have already briefed Mr. President our position as G-5 that we are no longer in the PDP mainstream and that we are already in another party.”

    “But as a President of this country, if he calls us, we will come and listen to him and respect him as a leader of our country, otherwise what we had there was mostly a PDP affair.”

    On why he sat through the about five hours PDP meeting, he said “We had to tell the President and Chairman of the BOT our position. We can’t just be going about talking, we had to come and tell them the truth where the truth must be told and that is why we came here.”

    On his part, the Akwa Ibom State Governor and Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum, Godswill  Akpabio said that the meeting was part of the on-going dialogue to resore harmony and peace in the party.

    He said: “I think the meeting we had was part of the dialogue Mr. President… months back at that time we had the G-7 governors. The
    last time we met, we met with the G-2 governors and today we had the G-3 and so it is part of the continuing dialogue to ensure harmony and peace in the party and Mr. President is not relenting.”

    “He is very serious about consulting with all strata and all the bigwigs in the party, particularly the governors who are aggrieved
    with a view to bringing everybody on board and ensuring harmony and unity of the party and the governors. I don’t think the issue of APC
    was discussed.”

    On whether all hope is lost with the declaration of Governor Wamakko to journalists at the end of the meeting, he said: “Please, you have
    to distinguish the issue state-by-state. You have to take the issues state-by-state. I wasn’t here when the governor of Sokoto was talking
    to you and I know that the governor of Sokoto State is just one member of the PDP in Sokoto and if he says he is leaving the PDP, I am sure
    there are still thousands of other members of PDP who will say we are staying within the PDP.”

    “So you can’t say all hope is lost. How can all hope be lost? The party is very robust, large and as much as possible we are interested in keeping our leaders together. That is why, we as governors are all here. We will continue dialogue, this is not going to be the end.”

    “We have narrowed down few issues which we are taking up with Mr. President and the governors are also going to discuss. You saw the
    number of governors today, we are more I think 17 or 18 governors and you can be sure that the number will keep increasing.” He added

    Asked to mention the issues causing the lingering crisis, Akpabio said: “I think the issues differ from state to state. They are all
    family issues. They are mostly issues that linger within the PDP and we believe strongly that the President is very poised and determined to ensure there is harmony.”

    On whether he believes that the five governors who decamped to APC are still members of the PDP, he said: “Which five? Do you mean the G-7 or G-4 or G-3?”

    He also declared that he was not aware of any media report where some PDP governors were insisting that the PDP National Chairman, Bamanga
    Tukur must be relieved of the position.

    “I have not read. Which media? I have not read it.” He stated

    Among governors who attended the meeting which started on Sunday night include Niger, Abia, Kebbi, Kogi, Katsina, Bauchi, Plateau, Enugu, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Ebonyi, Kaduna, and Taraba states.

    Also at the meeting were the Vice President Namadi Sambo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Tony
    Anenih and the National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki.

    The President left the venue of the meeting about an hour to the end of the meeting.

  • Thumbs-up for Wamakko

    Thumbs-up for Wamakko

    Sokoto State Governor Aliyu Wamakko has won a special place in the hearts of indigenous students of the state. How? The newly inaugurated state-owned university, Sokoto State University, is the brainchild of the governor. The first phase of the institution was flagged off by the former Head of State, General Abdulsalam Abubakar (rtd).

    The students, studying in various tertiary institutions across the country and abroad, said the governor has given them a gift they cannot forget. They called him a friend of students, adding that he is concerned about their future. They also hailed Wamakko for implementing “many other countless programmes and policies” in the state.

    The students came on the platform of their umbrella body, the Federated Organisation of Sokoto State Students’ Associations (FOSOSSA). They were led by their President, Comrade Ibrahim Umar Tureta, who, on behalf of the organisation, also applauded the wisdom of appointing Professor Nuhu Yakubu as its pioneer Vice Chancellor.

    Comrade Tureta said in Sokoto: “These and many countless programmes and policies showed that Governor Wamakko’s administration is students-friendly and it is concerned with their future. He is fully committed to adequately empowering the youths to effectively play their future leadership roles,” the president said.

    Tureta explained that, “the organisation has a membership of about 53,000 students who are being sponsored by the state government. Majority of these students are studying in various institutions in Nigeria, while the rest are in other parts of Africa, several others in Europe, Asia, Middle East and America. They are successfully and progressively pursuing their course in various studies,” he added.

    He said the state university which is a world-class edifice would afford the teeming youths of the state an opportunity to pursue various degree programmes at any level.

    Comrade Tureta noted that due to numerous competing circumstances, majority of qualified applicants from the state could not gain admission into the Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto and others across Nigeria.

    “Although the new state university would also admit students from other states but indigenes of the state would have an upper hand now,” he added.

    The association’s national president also welcomed the upgrading of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Sokoto to a degree-awarding institution.

    He urged his colleagues to reciprocate the government’s gesture by shunning all acts capable of hurting their academic pursuits.

     

  • Rivers PDP chair seeks expulsion of Amaechi, Lamido, Wamakko

    Rivers PDP chair seeks expulsion of Amaechi, Lamido, Wamakko

    The Chairman of the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Felix Obuah, has called for the expulsion of Governors Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers); Sule Lamido (Jigawa); Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto) and others for joining the Abubakar Baraje-led faction of the PDP.

    Obuah spoke with reporters in Abuja yesterday after a meeting with the national leadership of the party.

    He said: “If I were to be the national chairman of the PDP, I would expel Amaechi and his co travellers. Amaechi should forgo his ambition. Supporting the Baraje faction is supporting dissidents. Amaechi is not a member of the PDP.

    “The crisis we have in the PDP today is man-made. Before now, those six governors had been going from one place to another in their personal interest.

    “Their personal interest cannot override the interest of the nation. What happened at the Eagle Square was a manifestation of what I have said prior to this period; that they are already out. They are working with APC, PDM, VOP. These parties are being financed by these governors championed by Amaechi.

    “How can you support illegality. I have said it time without number, that this man (Amaechi) is always in opposition states. Every time, opposition party members are visiting him.

    “And for him to come and say he is supporting a dissident group, that is to show that he is supporting opposition party. And some of them have said they are ready to leave our party.

    “Before now, I have told our people that his (Amaechi) soul and spirit are not with us; only his face is in PDP. Amaechi and co are not in PDP. They are part of those sponsoring opposition and I stand to be corrected.

    “They are playing anti-party activities. if I were to be the national chairman, I would have expelled them from the party. Because the Bible said if one hand would make you sin, cut it off.

    “ In my state, all those people who want to play anti-party activities, we made sure they were given the chance to leave. I would ask them to leave and give them the proper place to be so that people who are around would make sure PDP wins any day any time.

    “The crisis in Rivers State is the handiwork of Amaechi because he has been acting contrary to the rule of law. He acted contrary to the rule of law by suspending the executive of the Obiokpor local government council.”

     

  • Wamakko, Lamido, Kwankwaso, others to lose seats – Tukur

    Wamakko, Lamido, Kwankwaso, others to lose seats – Tukur

    . . . Atiku, Oyinlola, Baraje risk expulsion

     The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has vowed to ensure that governors and National Assembly members that joined the Abubakar Baraje led breakaway faction of the party lose their seats.

    Similarly, Tukur said other PDP chieftains that joined the faction would be expelled from the ruling party.

    At a press conference he addressed at the party’s secretariat on Wednesday, the PDP chairman described leaders of the breakaway faction as impostors, saying that security agencies have been detailed to treat them as such.

    He said: “Consequently, we shall ensure that any person who is not duly elected into any leadership position in our great party and has not been duly assigned any role but goes ahead to arrogate such to himself will be made to face the full wrath of the law.

    “Similarly, all persons elected on the platform of our great party at all levels who identify with these enemies of the oneness and greatness of our party shall have their seats declared vacant as required by law.

    “We shall leave no stone unturned to ensure that such persons and indeed any other individual who attempts to subvert the leadership of the PDP shall reap in full, the consequences of such actions.”

    Stating that the PDP has no faction, Tukur said there was neither room nor reason whatsoever for such a claim under any guise.

    “The PDP has only one duly elected National Executive Committee (NEC) under my chairmanship. I wish therefore to state with all emphasis that any group of persons parading themselves as leaders of NEC or any other organ of our party are impostors and I urge all Nigerians, especially the security agencies and other institutions of democracy to regard them as such.

    “Let me state categorically that the PDP as the sole custodian of the sacred mandate of over 160 million Nigerians and who in the last fourteen years has lifted high the banner of democracy will not fold its arms while some undemocratic and unpatriotic elements destroy our common destiny by causing divisions and confusion among the people.

    “There is only one lawfully recognised PDP and I am firmly in charge, “Tukur declared.

     

     

  • Presidency blasts Kwankwaso, Wamakko, Lamido, other govs

    Presidency blasts Kwankwaso, Wamakko, Lamido, other govs

     • Okupe alleges plot to unseat Jonathan

    • Labels Amaechi tyrant

    Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, yesterday accused Governors Sule Lamido (Jigawa State), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) and Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) of plotting to block President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid in 2015.

    He said the governors’ visits to some past leaders ostensibly to defuse the tension created by the crisis in Rivers State were nothing more than a smokescreen to shield their true intention.

    Okupe spoke on the Kaduna-based Liberty Radio.

    Dismissing the governors’ peace initiative as a joke, he wondered why they failed to show the same zeal over the Boko Haram insurgency happening at their door steps.

    He said while President Jonathan has not told anyone of his intention to seek re-election in 2015, the governors are already gripped by fear that he would contest.

    According to him, “Jonathan has not told me and has not told anybody that he wants to run again. But all this heat that is in the country is because of the fear that he would run. But normally nobody should stop anybody from exercising the right that is guaranteed under the constitution.

    “If Jonathan wants to contest and you are not happy about it, go to the poll and defeat him….Nigerians must wake up. What is four years in the life of a country? Is it worth burning a country? Is it worth destroying our democracy?”

    Okupe, who was apparently reacting to the statement made on the same radio a week ago by former FCT Minister, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, on the same programme, said: “you heard about five governors who said they were motivated to go round the whole country because of Rivers crisis. Is that not a national joke? It is like watching Africa Magic.

    “What is the crisis in Rivers? Who is Amaechi and what is the issue that the whole country is being disturbed because of something that happened at the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF).

    “What is Nigeria Governors’ Forum to the destiny of this country? What has it got to do with us? The Rivers crisis is something that people just latch unto to fan the embers of this anti- Jonathan emotion and to continue to promote hatred against Goodluck Jonathan.

    “And of course, Amaechi is a willing tool, very rich and is very useful to the opposition. What you are seeing is an over- dramatisation of the preparations for 2015. Period.

    “These governors that were so motivated, so passionately concerned about the ultimate destiny of Nigeria, were not motivated when the Boko Haram crises were raging in the north to go round the north and plead on how to solve the problem.

    “They were not concerned enough for the thousands of people that were being bombed, killed in their mosques and churches in their domains, under their nose. I feel like crying, people are opening their doors to hypocrites.

    “Let them leave the Rivers State police commissioner alone. I don’t know how people got my number. I have text messages from ordinary people who are not politicians, people whose families have suffered grave injustice in the hands of Amaechi in Rivers. I am telling you this, God Almighty is my witness, I will show you these text messages so that you can confirm it.

    “Amaechi used the police and power to harass, intimidate and punish people unjustly. Mbu has refused to be a tool in the hands of Amaechi and has refused to bend to his unjustified high handedness. However, because he is supported by the opposition, he now presents Mbu as a villain. It is not true. He is a professional; he is a man of dignity who has remained steadfast……

    “People must find the truth. The Holy book says you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Nigerians are becoming too gullible, they swallow anything hook, line and sinker. I am glad that Chief Obasanjo as an elder statesman is trying to mediate; he has mediated in many international conflicts and has recorded successes, but in his own country people cannot listen because the stakes are higher than Obasanjo’s intervention. People are looking for power in 2015.

    “So am not surprised that there is no result. How will these five governors be at a meeting and they will not rally round Obasanjo and solve the problem. The elite in this country are only after their own interest.”

    While admitting that there are lots of challenges facing the country, Okupe said “yes there are a lot of challenges in the country: there is high unemployment; there are insecurity issues. There is no doubt about that. But to say that nothing is being done about them is absolute nonsense. It is not true, it is not correct.

    “It is just fiction. These are the people who, two years ago, told the whole country and the world that Goodluck Jonathan was clueless. If you say Jonathan is clueless, he is fixing the economy. Today our indices are the best in Africa. Today Nigeria is number one for foreign direct investment.

    “The Nigerian railway system that has been abandoned for decades is coming up. Before, we were generating 2800 megawatts of electricity, today, we have more than doubled that. Yet they said the man is clueless.

    “There was insurgency that engulfed about 11 states of the federation, today it has been reduced to three states and yet the man is clueless. There was a time when bombing was a daily occurrence, people were dying in numbers. It was impossible to do anything in the northern part of the country. All that is gone. For the first time in four years, a durbar was organised to celebrate Eidel Fitri in Borno State”.

    Okupe denied that President Jonathan awarded ex-militant Tompolo a contract to police the pipelines, saying “I don’t know of any deal or contract between Tompolo as a person. I am not aware. Whether Tompolo is involved in a company that is operating security issues on the Nigerian waters is a different matter and I will not comment on something that is fallacious.

    “I have heard so many things that Asari Dokubo, Tompolo and people who have contracts on oil pipelines, it is a fallacy. It was the late President Yar’Adua, as part of his good will for the Amnesty programme, who felt that it was better to use people who are local, people who know the terrain rather than outsiders to police those terrains. So he gave those guys those contracts.

    “The contracts expired during the time of President Jonathan and up till today, those contracts were never renewed.”

     

     

  • Consultation: Tukur urges Wamakko, Lamido, others to brief PDP

    Consultation: Tukur urges Wamakko, Lamido, others to brief PDP

    THE National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has urged the five northern governors currently consulting with former Nigerian leaders on the state of the nation to brief the leadership of the party at the end of their consultations.

    Addressing reporters at the party’s national secretariat yesterday in Abuja, Tukur said the PDP was waiting for the governors to conclude their consultations, adding that they would be expected to brief the party.

    Apparently worried by the divisions in the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) and the political crisis in Rivers State, Governors Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Sule Lamido (Jigawa) and Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) have been consulting former leaders for solutions.

    Some of the former leaders consulted by the governors include Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida and Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar. They have also held talks with former Vice President Alex Ekwueme and former Defence Minister, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma.

    Restating efforts by the PDP leadership to reconcile aggrieved members across the country, Tukur advised aggrieved members to comply with the party’s guidelines in their approach to conflict resolution.

    He said: “In the recent past, the media have been awash with accusations and counter-accusations from some of our party members. As much as we as a party respect the constitutional right of individuals to public opinions, movement and association, such exercise should be done with some element of civility and in keeping with the norms of the society, the party’s constitution and guidelines.

    “It is advisable that party faithful, who are aggrieved, should use the party’s internal resolution platform. That is, the party’s reconciliation committee or the leadership of the party.”

     

  • Sokoto offers jobs to 541 graduates

    Sokoto offers jobs to 541 graduates

    No fewer than 541 graduates of Sokoto State origin are sure of employment by the state government this month.

    The beneficiaries would include first degree, master and doctorate degree holders.

    Governor Aliyu Wamakko said this on Thursday while on the traditional Sallah homage to the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, in his palace.

    He commended the Sultan, former president Shehu Shagari, Islamic and Christian clerics and the general public for co-operating with his administration in achieving the preset level of peace in the state.

    He said the prevailing peace would “continue to spur us to do more to further improve the living standard of the people.’’

     

  • PDP crisis: Tukur blasts Aliyu, Lamido, Wamakko, others

    PDP crisis: Tukur blasts Aliyu, Lamido, Wamakko, others

    The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has taken a swipe at five northern governors for allegedly calling for his removal from office.

    Tukur described Governors Sule Lamido (Jigawa); Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano); Babangida Aliyu (Niger); Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto); and Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) as lacking in wisdom, caution, prudence and good counsel.

    The PDP chairman’s reaction was based on reports in some national dailies that the governors had demanded his removal from office at a private meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan last weekend.

    In a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Prince Olver Okpala, on Tuesday, Tukur said the actions and unguarded utterances of the governors were capable of heightening political tension in the land.

    The statement said: “The recent visit by some governors from the north to the President has raised furore, although the discussion between the President and the governors was held behind closed-doors, the media has been awash with the news of the meeting and the issues discussed.

    “Media reports have it that the four governors who had earlier visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo and two former military heads of state demanded the removal of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as the national chairman of the PDP.

    “We do not know the veracity of this claim, suffice it to say however that, the governors have the fundamental right to meet and discuss among themselves and whomsoever they like and may also have the fundamental right to freedom of speech and to air their views on any issue of national importance.

    “However, in so doing one would expect them to make comments with decorum, humility and caution. As leaders whom the general public look upon as role models, they are expected to show respect for constituted authority and the elders, which include Alhaji Bamanga Tukur who have contributed immensely to the peace, progress, development and advancement of this country.

     

    “Much as the constitution guarantees certain fundamental freedoms, such as freedom of speech and assembly, there are constitutional limitations to these freedoms.

    “The leaders should show wisdom, caution, prudence and good counsel in their comments on national issues as their unguarded utterances and calls can cause unnecessary political tension.”

     

  • PDP lifts Wamakko’s suspension

    The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party on Monday lifted the suspension order imposed on Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State.

    The PDP National Working Committee had on June 5 announced the suspension of Wamakko from the party for what members described as the governor’s repeated act of insubordination.

    The National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur announced the lifting of the suspension on Wamakko after a meeting of the NWC with some party governors in attendance.

    Tukur also announced that the meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee would be convened on June 20.

    He said the decision to hold the NEC meeting followed a return of normalcy to the party. The PDP held its last NEC meeting in July 2012.

    Addressing reporters shortly after the meeting, Tukur expressed the optimism that the issues that gave rise to Wamakko’s suspension would not resurface again.

    The chairman stated: “Now this issue would never come again. It is a great party, we believe in our nation. We need a party as a platform to stand on, but based on unity, discipline and commitment.

    “We are also going to have NEC, also we have the support to rescind the suspension, which is a very important thing. We rescind the suspension of the governor of Sokoto State.

    “With that, we are ready for further business because NEC is the requirement of our own party, always to get in touch with the people to tell them of our programme; like the state of the nation and also state of the party.”

    The Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Mr. Godswill Akpabio, on behalf of the Forum, thanked party’s the leadership for having a rethink on the governor’s suspension.

    Akpabio, who attended the meeting stated: “We want to thank the national chairman and members of the working committee for granting us the privilege of this meeting today.

    “We came as a select committee of the Peoples Democratic Party to discuss the state of affairs of our great party, particularly the relationship between the working committee and the PDP governors.”

     

  • PDP crisis: Nine Northern governors back Wamakko

    PDP crisis: Nine Northern governors back Wamakko

    Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State seems poised for a long-drawn battle with the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, following the governor’s suspension from the party for alleged insubordination.

    And he has the backing of nine of the party’s 15 governors in the North. Their objective is Tukur’s removal at the next meeting of the PDP National Executive Committe (NEC).

    Wamakko and his nine supporters are already mobilising party members sympathetic to their cause.

    The Sokoto State governor, who was abroad when his suspension was announced last week, returned to Sokoto on Wednesday brimming with anger.

    He denounced Tukur and the Presidential Political Adviser, Ahmed Gulak, for what he called incompetence and called for their removal.

    The governor accused Tukur of running the party as a private business.

    “We don’t have confidence in him anymore,” he said while speaking to his supporters in Sokoto.

    A source said yesterday that the Tukur-must-go governors could call for a vote of no confidence on Tukur.

    But Tukur is said to be ready to meet fire with fire.

    His camp is said to be considering Wamakko’s outright expulsion from the party.

    The calculation, party sources said, is that not only will it serve as a warning to other ‘rebels’, it will also frustrate the plot to remove the chairman.

    The PDP governors, it was gathered, are discussing how to prevail on President Goodluck Jonathan to “do away with Tukur” if he must secure the North in 2015.

    The governors are said to be unhappy with Tukur for treating them like school boys.

    In one of their meetings, the governors were of the view that the party leadership had been giving wrong information to Jonathan as a survival strategy.

    One source said: “ Northern PDP governors are pushing for Tukur’s exit because if care is not taken, our party may lose at least eight key states to the opposition.

    “The tenure of the chairman has left the party polarised such that we cannot go into 2015 poll decimated as we are now.

    “Removal of Tukur is the only agenda that these nine northern governors have for the President.

    “To prove their resolve, the governors have asked Jonathan to prevail on Tukur to convene NEC meeting to test his popularity.

    “Out of the six geopolitical zones, party leaders in the South-West, the North-West, the North-East, and three states in the North-Central, and two states in the South-South are against Tukur.

    “Even NWC members have their grouse against the PDP National Chairman but they are only suffering in silence.”

    It was gathered that a quiet governor among the aggrieved nine is the arrowhead of the anti-Tukur’s campaign.

    The governor, who has kept away from Tukur and his team, was said to have complained that “this party is dying, we need to rescue it.”

    Investigation revealed that some of the aggrieved governors may also come out to “say their mind on how to save PDP from disintegration.”

    One of the governors said: “Wamakko is right. He spoke our minds. Things must change for the party to move forward.”

    But Tukur’s camp is already pushing for the expulsion of Wamakko for alleged “rudeness” to party leadership.

    A loyalist of Tukur said: “Wamakko is behaving as a larger than life politician. The party will clip his wings and prove a point that without him, PDP can win election in Sokoto State. We are pushing for his expulsion because he was too hard on Tukur.”

    Although Tukur and NWC are currently on performance tour of Katsina State, it was gathered that Wamakko might be referred to a disciplinary committee next week.

    A member of the NWC said: “I think the NWC may refer Wamakko’s case to a disciplinary committee when we return next week.

    “Wamakko’s case is more serious than even Amaechi’s. He came out frontally to attack Tukur without exhausting the necessary party organs. He risks expulsion if such is recommended by a disciplinary committee.

    Sources also said many members of the National Working Committee of the party, on performance tour of Katsina State with him, are embarrassed by his anger at the slightest provocation.

    Another NWC member said: “Some of us were also shocked by Tukur’s anger. This is not the time to ask anyone to leave the party.

    “Definitely, we are all not on the same page with Tukur on the sack notice given to Wamakko. But we will meet next week on the issue.”