By Samuel Ogidan
Abuja
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday suspended the former National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, and Aliyu Abuba Gurin for one month.
They were suspended over a court case filed against the party National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu.
The case, it was gather was a plot to remove the party Chairman, Mu’azu. before the PDP convention.
Tukur has however denied instituting a case against Mu’azu, saying “Tukur never initiated nor filed any case against Alhaji Adamu Muazu contrary to reports making headlines in national dailies and waves in social media.
Tukur added that “the wrongful report and misrepresentation of facts to the effect that Alhaji Bamanga Tukur filed a case urging the court to oust Alhaji Adamu Muazu out of office as National Chairman of the PDP is not only untrue but gross distortion of facts relating to the case instituted and filed by Alhaji Aliyu Gurin.
“Alhaji Bamanga Tukur was joined in the suit as a co-defendant in the suit and as is required in law filed his own counter affidavits stating his own side of the case in relation to the suit filed by the plaintiff, Alhaji Aliyu Buba Gurin.”
PDP, in a statement by its National Legal Adviser, Barr. Victor Kwon, said “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.”
It said: “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 regularise 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).”