All but one of the former many aides of the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Alhaji Bamanga Tukur sacked last week have refused to collect their letters of disengagement.
The former aides Vanguard learnt are seriously lobbying to return to their offices or in the alternative any other office the national chairman could assign them.
Vanguard gathered that the former aides have been mounting pressure on Awwal Tukur, son of the National Chairman, who interestingly was one of the many aides sacked last week.
A source told Vanguard that except the former Special Adviser, Political, Alhaji Ahmed Gusau who collected his sack letter, others have refused to do same with the hope that the National Chairman would rescind his decision.
Vanguard gathered unlike others, that Gusau when he got news of the sack immediately wrote a handwritten letter thanking the Chairman for the opportunity to serve and he gave the letter to Tukur.
It would be recalled that Tukur last Friday bowed to pressure and sacked all his aides including his son, Awwal who was his Special Adviser, Special Duties.
According to Tukur, the move became imperative because of the urgent need to reorganise his office for what he termed, service delivery.
In a statement Tukur personally signed last Friday, he sacked the former Inspector General of Police, Sir Mike Okiro who was until then, the Special Adviser Security Matters to the PDP National Chairman.
Also affected were the Principal Secretary, Senator Ibrahim Ida, Political Adviser, Alhaji Ahmed Gusau, Special Adviser Electoral Matters, Senator Saidu Kumo, Special Adviser, Media Mohammed Ujudud Sheriff and Special Adviser Economic Matters, Chief O. Akindele.
Others were Special Adviser, Inter Party Affairs, Alhaji Shittu Mohammed, Special Adviser Mobilisation, Chief Ishola Filani; Special Adviser Monitoring, Bernard Miko; Special Adviser Governance, Osaro Onaiwo; Special Adviser General Duties; Prince Igwe Uche; Special Adviser National Assembly, Abdullahi Gumel and Special Adviser, Special Duties and Protocol Officer Saidu Sulaiman.
Tukur in the statement said, ‘’after one year in office, the political journey was interesting, challenging and I am better equipped in the general understanding and approaches of the operating system vis-a-viz the relationship between the party, Executive and Legislature which are important components of political governance.
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