NIGERIA (Abuja) –The embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has said it categorically that only a National Convention of the Party can remove him from office.

Tukur said this to brush aside threats by members of the party’s National Working Committee, who boycotted the emergency committee he summoned to resolve internal crises rocking the party.

The NWC members shunned the chairman against the backdrop of claim that they had lost total confidence on him and would not sit face-to-face with him again.

It was gathered that Tukur arrived at the Wadata Plaza of the party’s secretariat, in the morning waiting for others to come for the meeting which was fixed for 12.00pm, but none of them (NWC) show up until 2.25 pm.

The only officers who kept the National Chairman company in his office while he waited for the botched meeting were the National Secretary, Professor Wale Oladipo; National Auditor, Adewole Adeyanju and the National Treasurer, Bala Buhari.

Tukur was forced to leave the secretariat when it dawned on him that the NWC members were not prepared to have any discussion with him.

It was also gathered from sources that members of the NWC have decided that Tukur must go for peace to return to PDP as they had passed a vote of no confidence on him.