2015: PDP will lose without breakaway Governors – Tambuwal

By Ameh Comrade Godwin on September 14, 2013

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal had on Friday admitted that it would be difficult for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to win the 2015 general elections without the seven state governors who broke away from the party during its mini-convention in Abuja last month.

Tambuwal in an address entitled “Leadership in Developing Democracies: A Nigerian Perspective”, which he delivered at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC, said that some Niger Delta militants who had been threatening bloodshed in the country if President Goodluck Jonathan loses out in 2015 presidential election were being politically motivated by some top politicians in government.

He also said, “Definitely what happened on that convention day is going to influence the turn of events in 2015, especially if the PDP is not able to manage its internal crisis and return those seven governors to the main fold of the party. The challenges that the PDP faces now is how the leadership of Bamanga Tukur will address the points being raised by the aggrieved governors. The agitation is that the leadership of the PDP should allow freedom and aspirations to come out freely so that those that feel strong for some particular positions should be allowed to contest without being hindered.

“So, it is up to the group that is led by Bamanga Tukur to appreciate the implication and the consequence of that action that was taken by the faction that broke away from the party at the mini convention. Tukur must understand what the action of those seven governors will cost the PDP before the 2015 elections, and failure to do that; I am afraid… and if we allow that particular group, from what we can see, either to go and form another political party since they are working together or go and join the merger and possibly increase the strength of the newly formed All Progressives Congress (APC), the PDP being led by Bamanga Tukur will have a very strong formidable force coming up against it in 2015.”


Tambuwal continued, “The challenge for the Tukur-led PDP is to go and find every means to pacify and bring the seven governors and their people back into the main PDP fold because if you lose just one state, it can be very costly not to talk of seven states, and of those seven, there is Kano that is having a very strong voting population in Nigeria; there is Rivers, and there is also Niger State. They are not states like Nassarawa, Ebonyi or Bayelsa. These seven states are the ones that have significant voting strength and I believe that PDP needs to be more careful in handling this very delicate situation.”

He told the audience that it had been one problem after the other in the PDP since Tukur came into office as the party’s national chairman. “First, he started with Adamawa, his home state, and it is clear that it was because he is having his own son in mind to succeed the present governor of the state. Same is happening in some of the states where some of his allies are having interests in who becomes the next governors.”

Tambuwal explained that apart from governors Rotimi Amaechi, Babangida Aliyu, Sule Lamido, Murtala Nyako, Rabiu Kwakwanso, Abdulfatah Ahmed and Aliyu Wammako who broke away from the ruling party, other governors are uncomfortable with the leadership style of Tukur.

On the Boko Haram menace, the speaker said, “We are doing everything humanly possible to address the insurgence before the next election. We have mapped out strategies on how to combat terrorism. Before 2015, we should be able to have enough degree of peace in the North-East for us to be able to conduct elections in the area. That is why the government had to declare a state of emergency, and from the reports we have been receiving, the problem of terrorism is going down in the area.”
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first of all, Tanbuwal you cant blackmail us.

How we won the 2011 election you dont even know. Thesame seven governors worked against us in 2011 and we made a mice meal of them.

At least we must thank the seven govs for giving us a head start. We now know our enemies. The element of surprise is no longer there.

And as of you Tanbuwal, we know where you stand so please save the sermon.

Most importantly, stop taking panadol for our headache.

This not about first to comment

Lies! Lies!! Lies!!! Hw many of those states did PDP win in de general elections apart frm Rivers State.

We all know. Jonathan must be disgraced out of office on or before 2015.

Cleverly Said So!

This clown should start by telling us his contribution towards the success of 2011 election.

If his type were irrelevant then he should know by now that they have become more irrelevant for 2015 race.

Clerverly: We all know. Jonathan must be disgraced out of office on or before 2015.

Cleverly Said So!

he disgraced you people 2011, 2015 present another opportunity to put loud mouths like you to shame

gramci:


he disgraced you people 2011, 2015 present another opportunity to put loud mouths like you to shame

Come 2015, your Oga Jonathan can only be the president of Otuoke Town Union.

Cleverly Said So!

Clerverly:

Come 2015, your Oga Jonathan can only be the president of Otuoke Town Union.

Cleverly Said So!

buhaha

This APC member again?!

All i sense is Tambuwal trying to inflate the relevance of the invalids for soft landing purposes .

Pikin wey say him papa no go sleep, him self no go sleep . .

The invalids started it all . . . Like they say, first to do no dey pain . .na second to do Na him dey pain pass . . .


GEJ carry gooooo !!!

The simple truth is what Tanbuwal has said. PDP can recall vividly how difficult it was to win these states even with the full support of the governors at that time not to talk of now that the governors are against the PDP. GEJ should not be deceived by his handlers that he will sail smoothly in 2015 like in 2011, his popularity has dropped to the lowest level in the core north and north central from the feelers I am getting here.. Also, he will be the most naïve politician in Nigeria if he believes that the other northern PDP governors (katsina, Bauchi, Gombe, etc) are on his side. These guys are just playing safe because of their personal interest in second terms, in due time they will deny him. To be sincere, the only states he is sure of wining in the north as it stands is Plateau and Benue. If he must contest in 2015 then he needs to lay off some of his advisers and embrace reconciliation with the aggrieved faction, else it will take a great miracle to return him back to Aso villa.

So? Is it not the same CURSED Nigerians in other parties?
How are the others different from PDP?
What have they to show IN THEIR RESPECTIVE STATES LIKE THE PDP STATES?

Nothing!

So APC or APGA have AMERICANS in their parties abi?

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrantus NONSENSICUS!!!!

Put TINUBU/FASHOLA, BUHARI/RIBADU or what ever LOOTOCRATIC, DEMI-ILLITERATE up there in GEJ's place. . . YOU WILL GET THE SAME RESULT!

kokoA: The simple truth is what Tanbuwal has said. PDP can recall vividly how difficult it was to win these states even with the full support of the governors at that time not to talk of now that the governors are against the PDP. GEJ should not be deceived by his handlers that he will sail smoothly in 2015 like in 2011, his popularity has dropped to the lowest level in the core north and north central from the feelers I am getting here.. Also, he will be the most naïve politician in Nigeria if he believes that the other northern PDP governors (katsina, Bauchi, Gombe, etc) are on his side. These guys are just playing safe because of their personal interest in second terms, in due time they will deny him. To be sincere, the only states he is sure of wining in the north as it stands is Plateau and Benue. If he must contest in 2015 then he needs to lay off some of his advisers and embrace reconciliation with the aggrieved faction, else it will take a great miracle to return him back to Aso villa.

U have said it all. If jonathan wants to win the next election he must settle with the aggreved people in his party, all those come advisers and ministers plus tukur can't get him de presidency in 2015

Since they are so powerful, why don't they register their own party & win the 2015 election? Why remain with the PDP?
It is only the blind & uninformed in Nigeria that is yet to see beyond the tissue of lies being propagated by these men. You know everything is wrong with the PDP, you know the PDP is going to loose the 2015 elections without you, yet you remain...to do what?
It is a pity that Nigerians have not seen these men as the real enemies of our democracy. They want to distract the President and make the country ungovernable for him. They even have the effrontry to ask not to be investigated for the massive corruption they are perpetrating.
Amaechi has since abandoned his duty post in Rivers state to become a parellel President and editor-in-chief of many newspaper houses; distorting facts and churning out falsehood. If I may ask, is Amaechi a minister or a federal legislator? His jurisdiction ends in Rivers state, yet he struts about the federation setting up parallel structures and challenging the authorities. If he is tired of being the governor of Rivers state , why not hand over to his deputy and resign?
There was once a little dog that considered himself too smart. He tried to answer two masters at the sametime and broke his jaw in the process.

Well said Tambuwal! I like your guts.

stebell: Lies! Lies!! Lies!!! Hw many of those states did PDP win in de general elections apart frm Rivers State.

Dont be naive. You may not necessarily win a state but the votes u aggregate also matter. if you got 400,000 from a state you lost in 2011, and get 100,000 in 2015, then u are down by 300,000 which go to your opponent.

@OP

Ranting of an ant!!! If PDP loses the electoral contest, what is the big deal? It is only in Nigeria that a goon such as Tambuwal addresses his audience on a subject titled “Leadership in Developing Democracies: A Nigerian Perspective” yet tries to fan political frenzy of disorder by insinuating PDP is formed to rule forever.