Atiku tells Tukur - PDP mistakenly removed my name from Adamawa list

FORMER vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has described the omission of his name from the list of names of Adamawa State’s delegates to the up-coming Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) special convention.

Atiku in a letter written to the national chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, said he learnt of the omission through a newspaper publication and after waiting for response from the party’s national secretariat, Abuja, endlessly, he decided to write the chairman.

Atiku said: “after waiting for a public statement from the party, correcting or refuting the abnormality in vain, I decided to draw your attention to this mistake.”

He said his letter was based on the premise that he had been granted waiver on return to the party based on the party’s constitution, section 8, sub section 8 (b) of the constitution of the PDP 2012 as amended “a person who desires to rejoin the party after leaving it, unless given a waiver by the National Working Committee (NEC) of our party, be placed on probation for a period not less than 1 year.”

This, Atiku reminds Tukur that this section had been met at the 53th meeting of the NEC of the party held on September 15,2010 at the party secretariat, “approved the application of the Adamawa State Executive Committee for my waiver alongside similar applications from Imo, Abia, Edo, Anambra and Kogi States.”