PRESIDENT JONATHAN APPOINTS TUKUR!

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President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed the immediate past National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bamanga Tukur, as Chairman of the Board of the Nigerian Railway Corporation.

This was made known in a statement issued by the Special Assistant (Media) to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Sam Nwaobasi on Tuesday.

According to the statement, Jonathan also approved the appointment of Ghaji Ismaila Bello as Director-General of the National Population Commission with effect from January 8, 2014.

The post was previously held by Kawu Baraje, the former factional PDP chairman, who resigned last year at the heat of the crisis.

Mr. Jonathan is presently in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum.

Many had thought that the Adamwa-born politician was being considered for a ministerial appointment.
DailyPost recalls that the president last Thursday, at the National Executive Committee meeting of the ruling party, promised to give Tukur a tasking national assignment.

PRESIDENT JONATHAN DISOWNS BURUJI KASHAMU!

In his response, Mr. Obasanjo is said to have explained to the president his frustration at explaining to world leaders how an alleged criminal, wanted by the United States authorities, ended up as a leader of Nigeria’s ruling party. Continue after the cut

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President Goodluck Jonathan has telephoned former President Olusegun Obasanjo to deny responsibility for promoting a controversial member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Buruji Kashamu, as an influential party leader in the south-west geo-political zone, a development that has infuriated Obasanjo.

Sources close to the former president said Obasanjo was travelling in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, at the time of the conversation with President Jonathan.

Usually reliable presidency sources said Jonathan hurriedly called Obasanjo on Thursday shortly after he received the former president’s latest letter informing him and the PDP National Chairman, Bamanga Tukur, that he was suspending participation in party activities for as long as the ruling party continued to treat Mr. Kashamu, believed to be a fugitive, with reverence.

Our sources said during the telephone exchanges, Jonathan appealed to Obasanjo to reconsider his decision to suspend himself from the party, saying he would personally prevail on Tukur to stop fraternizing with Kashamu and imposing him on the South-West PDP as a rallying point.

The president, according to our sources, told Obasanjo that he had never met Kashamu and had never instructed anyone to accord the controversial Ogun politician a special or preferential treatment in the party.

“Baba, believe me, I don’t know Kashamu,” our sources quoted Jonathan as saying. “I think it is the chairman (Tukur) that knows him. Personally, I have nothing with him. But I will ask chairman.

“Kindly consider your decision again. The PDP belongs to us all and we need to correct whatever is wrong together.”

The president then promised to “hear from” Tukur, and to “do something” about the matter, those informed about the discussion said.

In his response, Mr. Obasanjo is said to have explained to the president his frustration at explaining to world leaders how an alleged criminal, wanted by the United States authorities, ended up as a leader of Nigeria’s ruling party.

He reportedly told the president that his assurance of action might amount to nothing as he believed not much could be done as of now.

Source: premiumtimes