I am a virus in PDP, Tukur tells Lamido

 NATIONAL Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has agreed with governor Sule Lamido that he is a virus, but a necessary one for the entrenchment of democratic culture, discipline and good governance in the party and the country.
According to him, Governor Sule Lamido will soon catch what he termed the necessary virus for the good of the PDP and the country, adding, “if the virus had spread enough the likes of Governor Sule Lamido would not have walked out on the President of the country and other party chieftains during the party’s last convention.”

A statement by his Special Assistant, Media, Prince Oliver Okpala read, “Bamanga Replies Governor Lamido on Issue of Being a Virus in PDP.
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji (Dr) Bamanga Tukur has agreed with Governor Sule Lamido that he is a virus in the Party but a necessary virus for the entrenchment of democratic culture, discipline and good governance in the party and the country.
“He hoped that Governor Sule Lamido will soon catch this necessary virus for the good of the PDP and the country.
“The National Chairman remarked that this virus that Sule Lamido perceived is a necessary virus in any democratic political structure for sustenance and continuity of our nascent democratic dispensation.
“Dr. Bamanga Tukur made it clear that discipline is a necessary instrument in the smooth running of any political organization or society as any organization or society without discipline opens the door for indiscipline, anarchy and catastrophe to set-in.
“The National Chairman said that it was only in a political dispensation that the Governors can go free after conspiring and walking out on the President of the country in the Party’s last national convention.
“The actions of the Governors he said amounted to a political coup and secedession which should be condemned by every right thinking Nigerian as an insult on the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
Tukur who assured party faithful throughout the country of his preparedness to continue to run the party with democratic ideals as a father and founding member of the PDP, said that irrespective of the present distractions and defections, the PDP will win more electoral victories and will move to greater height as members of one united family under one big umbrella.

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