OPEN LETTER: DON'T LEAVE PDP, TUKUR BEGS OBASANJO

National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga
Tukur, Saturday, pleaded with former President Olusegun Obasanjo not
to leave the party.
Obasanjo had in a one-page letter, dated 7 January, 2014 to Tukur,
said he would temporarily cease to be a member of the party by
withdrawing from its activities at the local, state and federal levels
over the allegation that Chief Buruji Kashamu, the Chairman of the
Organisation and Mobilisation Committee of the party in the South
West, is a wanted man in the United States.
Tukur's letter:
"It is an honour that you deemed it fit and proper to intimate me with
an issue important to your mind and our party in the South-west zone.
It is my wish and prayer that such cordial and positive relationship
will continue between your good self; former President and former
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of our great party on one hand, and
my humble self, the National Chairman of our party on the other hand.
"Buruji Kasamu came to limelight in politics as a result of the role
he played in the politics of Ogun state where both of you come from.
He later became a rallying point in the South-west following the
Courts' Orders in the series of cases brought about as a result of
disagreements among leaders of the party in the South-west, and Ogun
State in particular.
"In my opinion, Buruji became a rallying point because of the absence
of a zonal executive in the South-west. This vacuum in the South-west
has made him the person to whom many members in all the chapters of
the party in the zone approach for one form of assistance or the
order.
"We came in when we were threatened with contempt of court charges for
not obeying the court's order to dissolve the South-west zonal
executive and remove some officers of the party.
"We complied with the court's orders because of our belief in the rule
of law and to avoid consequences of disobeying such orders."