Ukandi Odey, Jos
Former Nigeria Ambassador to Kenya and one-time Minister for Commerce and Industry, Sir Fidelis Tapgun, may be in need of a walking stick as he appears to be walking on banana pills in Plateau politics, with a coalition of PDP youth organisations dragging, challenging, and calling on him to resign as a member of the Board of Trustees.
The group has also described Tapgun as “irresponsible, greedy, ungrateful, and a disgrace” because he should have resigned his BOT status and Party membership if he is at variance with goings-on in the Party.
Distrusted by the PDP youth as a betrayal and doubtful party man, the Group, in a statement, described Tapgun who is also a former Governor of the erstwhile Plateau State as a “disgrace and an APC mole within the ranks of our great Party”.
In a statement signed by the Group’s Chairman, Isa Musa and made available to news men in Jos, they said “for the record,Tapgun has been a member of the Damishi Sango camp since he made an attempt to re-launch his governorship ambition in 2015. Since then, after his rejection by the People of Plateau State, he became an APC mole in the PDP to date”.
According to the youth groups, “it is very unfortunate, shameful, disgraceful and pathetic for a former Governor and former Minister of the Federal Republic to stoop so low and take his disdain for truth and honesty, in a crass show of shame, brazen lies, deceit, falsehood, distortion and misrepresentation of facts, irrespective of being an elder statesman, to the international stage”.
The statement also said “as youths, we feel it is necessary and important not only to respond in order not to allow him mislead the general public, but to call for his immediate resignation as a BOT member of the PDP, because the time is now to protect the future of the state from selfish elders like Tapgun and his cohorts”.
The statement noted that Sir Fidelis Tapgun has been a serial and habitual absentee from Party functions and activities, including scheduled Board meetings, and to that extent, his recent antiparty comments can be contextualized, and should thus leave the BOT .
