Nigeria: Jonathan to Tukur - Resign Now or Face PDP NEC's Decision

13 January 2014

Piqued by the widespread agitations for the removal of the national chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), President Goodluck Jonathan has asked Alhaji Bamanga Tukur to honourably turn in his resignation letter before the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting slated for Thursday this week.

In the alternative, LEADERSHIP learnt, President Jonathan has pointedly told the embattled national chairman that the party's NEC would decide his fate.

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