Tukur Is Incompetent To Lead PDP..Wamakko

The relationship between the Peoples Democratic Party and suspended Sokoto State Governor, Aliyu Wamakko, is getting messier by the day

Wamakko was the first to attack the PDP National Chairman, Bamanga Tukur, on Wednesday when he said he (Tukur) was incompetent and is running the party as his personal business.

“He (Tukur) has been running the PDP as a personal business from his private home,” he told his supporters on his arrival from a foreign trip in Sokoto. The governor, who had earlier  called on President Goodluck Jonathan to relieve Tukur of his job, also wants the same treatment meted out to the President’s   Special Adviser on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak.

Wamakko  said, “As far as I am concerned, Tukur and Gulak should be sacked because they are not competent to hold their positions.”

But Tukur, who did not take the governor’s vituperation lightly, fired back on Thursday, saying  he (Wamakko) lacked  the “moral fibre to remain in office.”

His Special Assistant on Media,   Oliver Okpala, who spoke for him, said “When he insults an elderly man like Tukur because he is a governor, then we don’t think he has the moral fibre to remain in office because as a governor he should live by example.”

Okpala  claimed that the PDP leadership   was aware of the alleged romance between  Wamakko  and  leaders of the yet-to-registered All Progressives Congress.

He said, “If he has any agenda to leave the PDP, it is within his constitutional right and he is free, but as long as he remains within the PDP, he must align himself with discipline.

“He should not stay in the party and be encouraging insubordination and indiscipline. The leadership of the party under Tukur has regards for party discipline and will never waver.”

On the claim that  Wamakko described the PDP chairman  as a political prostitute, Okpala said it was wrong for  him  to have done so.

The  chairman’s Special Assistant called on Wamakko to learn from another suspended governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, who he said had not abused anyone.

 Okpala said, “For him to say Tukur is a political prostitute does not  portray him as a true son.  He should express a true sense of respect and discipline because of his position as a governor.

“The example he is showing now does not portray him as someone who has respect for seniority and properly constituted authority like the position of chairman of the PDP and the NWC.”

On the call for Tukur’s removal, Okpala said that as a father to every member of the PDP , Tukur  had taken the call  with calm.

He said no one should see Tukur’s   and PDP   leadership’s   determination to bring discipline to the party as a personal vendetta.

“When there is no discipline, there will be anarchy and when anarchy sets in, there will be retrogression,” he added.