PDP CRISIS: We won’t be dragged into ego war with you, Lamido replies Tukur

From ISMAIL OMIPIDAN, Kaduna

The frosty relationship between some Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors and their National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, is far from being over.

This is so because the governors leading the “Save Nigeria Democracy” campaign, and who incidentally met with Tukur, last Thursday, in what looked like a “peace meeting,” have put a lie to the account of what transpired at the said meeting, as rendered by Tukur, through his spokesman.
Specifically, Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State, who was part of the Thursday meeting, has described as “conjectures” the statement credited to Tukur, which claimed that the three governors who met with him on Thursday night in Abuja, came to apologize to him.
This is even as Lamido said that they (governors)  would not be dragged into an “ego war” with the national chairman.
The governors, otherwise known as G6, had in continuation of their advocacy visits, to past Nigerian leaders, including past and present leaders of the PDP, in their bid to “rescue the party and the polity from drifting,” met with Tukur, at his Abuja residence last Thursday. The members of the group who made the meeting were: Governors Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (Kano) and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto). Others not at the meeting include Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and Murtala Nyako (Adamawa).
After the meeting, none of the governors was willing to be quoted on what transpired at the closed-door meeting.
However, reacting to the claim when Saturday  Sun called the Jigawa governor yesterday to confirm from him what really transpired at the meeting, in the light of the claim by Tukur, Lamido said that what was dished out, was  conjectures based either on the impression of Tukur’s aide, since he was not at the meeting, or the narration of the impression of Tukur, about the meeting, as relayed to his aide, by him, insisting that only the four of them, who were at the meeting, knew what transpired.
When pressed further, Lamido simply said: “We were only four at the meeting. The National Chairman, myself, the governor of Kano State and the governor of Sokoto State. Therefore, what was discussed is known to four of us alone. So, what the chairman’s aide said in his press release, is his own conjecture of what he felt transpired or obviously the narration by the chairman of his impression of the meeting. On both grounds, the chairman and the three of us alone, knew what transpired.
“Now, if the press release is the conjecture of the chairman’s aide alone, I have no problem with that since he was not at the meeting. But if indeed, it was a narration of what happened, based on the impression of the National Chairman, that we were at the meeting to apologize, I wish him the best of luck.
“We will not engage in an ego war with him (Tukur), neither will we allow ourselves to be dragged into an ego war with him (Tukur).”