Bashir-Haske was encouraged by northern moguls like his mentor and influential politician Bamanga Tukur; and Aminu Dantata who died in Abu Dhabi in June...
Without some initiative to bring together the southern and northern wings of the party – such as the sacking of Bamanga Tukur the unpopular National Chairman – Jonathan may struggle to win the nomination...
The most generous interpretation is that he was torn between the vengeful faction of the governing People's Democratic Party (PDP) under National Chairman Bamanga Tukur who wanted the toughest sanctions against party dissidents and more tactical operators such as former President Olusegun Obasanjo who wanted to tie the rebels up in tortuous negotiations about reconciliation...
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The Chairman of the PDP Trustees Tony Anenih encouraged those talks but National Chairman Bamanga Tukur absolutely opposed it and wants the rebels to be punished...
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Jonathan's greatest supporter is the embattled PDP National Chairman Bamanga Tukur from the northern state of Adamawa...
The latest episode started when five PDP governors – Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara State) Mu'azu Aliyu (Niger) Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (Kano) Sule Lamido (Jigawa) and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto) – walked out of the PDP national conference in protest at what they called a deliberate flouting of party rules by Bamanga Tukur the PDP National Chairman and key ally of Jonathan's...
Well-connected oil traders facing investigation by the National Assembly include the son of Bamanga Tukur the embattled Chairman of the governing People’s Democratic Party (AC Vol 53 No 7 The President tightens up & The people who run the PDP show)...
On 24 March the President pulled off the same trick and Alhaji Bamangar Tukur emerged as the PDP’s National Chairman...
Rival candidates stepped down in favour of Bamangar Tukur...
On his Facebook page a British-Nigerian historian Ayo Akinfe wrote that at 77 Tukur should be taking a back seat not the job of party Chairman: ‘Bamangar Tukur your “appointment” as party chairman just reflects everything wrong with Nigerian politics at the moment...
• Alhaji Bamangar Tukur: elected PDP Chairman after an initial setback in the north-east zone primaries (see Feature The President tightens up)...
So far he has managed to rely on a diverse team of advisors - former Inspector General of Police Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu and businessman Bamanga Tukur from the north General Theophilus Danjuma from the Middle Belt and former Commonwealth Secretary General Emeka Anyaoku - without alienating important constituencies...