Some aides of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur,? are in a messy power play with members of the National Working Committee, reports reaching LEADERSHIP WEEKEND suggests.
At the centre of the alleged brawl are the chairman’s Principal Secretary, Mal. Habu Fari and his Political Adviser, Alh. Ahmed Gusua who are being accused of overstepping their official boundaries, wanting to assume? status of National Working Committee members.
Before now, Abu Fari had been an administrative secretary under the PD, before leaving to go become the national chairman of National Democratic Party (NDP). On his part,? Ahmed Gusau was a former Deputy Governor of old Sokoto State.
A source close to some NWC members? revealed that the first meeting of the NWC saw the duo attending and even making contributions , assuming status of NWC members, a step which did not augur well with the NWC members.
After the meeting, however, an NWC member was said to have summoned the courage and observed that both Fari and Gusau were not NWC members after which they were told not to further attend the NWC meetings.
The position of the NWC members was said to have angered the two top aides who are now being fingered as allegedly being those who? advised their Principal, the PDP chairman that henceforth NWC meetings which held weekly, should be held monthly.
Also causing ripple in the barely two-month old NWC, the source further revealed is the Party’s planned retreat billed to hold in South Africa.
When contacted, Habu Fari dismissed the allegation as “concoctions as people try to create stories” speaking further, he said “I am not a member of the NWC and do not speak for the party.”
Seven of the chairman’s aides are said to be listed amongst those to make the trip, thereby raising questions amongst other NWC members on the rationale behind the inclusion of seven? members of the national chairman’s aides for the retreat.