PDP Chairmanship: I Did Not File Case Against Mu’azu – Tukur disclaims

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Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has said he never instituted a legal suit against his successor, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu.
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Tukur, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Prince Oliver Okpala also said that at no time did he ever said he was going to the Appeal Court.

In his reaction to Wednesday’s court ruling, Tukur said he never said he would challenge the judgement at the Court of Appeal, since he did not institute the case.

He said: “It has come to the notice of the Special Assistant on Media to Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the mis-representation of facts bothering on the case instituted against the National Chairman of PDP and 3 others by a member of the Party Alhaji Aliyu Buba Gurin.

“It must be put forward in its proper legal and historical perspective that Alhaji Bamanga Tukur never initiated nor filed any case against Alhaji Adamu Muazu contrary to reports making headlines in national dailies and waves in the social media.

“The wrongful report and misrepresentation of facts to the effect that Alhaji Bamanga Tukur filed a case urging the court to oust Alhaji Adamu Muazu out of office as National Chairman of the PDP is not only untrue but gross distortion of facts relating to the case instituted and filed by Alhaji Aliyu Gurin.

“Alhaji Bamanga Tukur was joined in the suit as a co-defendant in the suit and as is required in law filed his own counter affidavits stating his own side of the case in relation to the suit filed by the plaintiff, Alhaji Aliyu Buba Gurin.

“A co-defendant in a case cannot by any imagination in law be deemed as a plantiff who initiated and filed a suit before a law court. Let it be also noted that at no time did Alhaji Bamanga Tukur react to the Court judgement and did not inform any reporter or journalist as being erroneously reported that he has vowed to challenge the judgement at the Court of Appeal.

“The important legal argument herein after is how can a co-defendant who was also sued in a case by the plaintiff vow to challenge the judgement of a case he did not institute on appeal,” he said.

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