The suit seeking to sack the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Adamu Mu'azu took a new twist on Wednesday as the immediate past chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, approached the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja seeking an order recognizing him as chairman and permitting him to preside over the forthcoming national convention of the party.
Tukur also wants the court to grant an order allowing him to preside over the affairs of the party until 2016 when his tenure as the party's national chairman will expire.
Tukur's position was contained in a counter-claim he filed at the registry of the court through his counsel, Adamson Adeboro.
The counter claim was a response to a suit instituted by an aspirant to the House of Representatives in Adamawa state, Aliyu Abuba Gurin seeking to unseat the present national chairman of the party, Adamu Mu'azu and also stop the party's planned delegates convention.
The trial judge, Justice Evoh Chukwu will this morning (Thursday) hear Tukur's request.
Tukur had said that he was forced to resign his post as the national chairman of the party in order for the seven defected governors to come back to the party.
source: thisdaylive
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