Alhaji Hassan Tukur Most Influential Northener In Jonathan's Government.

Alhaji Hassan Tukur, principal Secretary to President Goodluck Jonathan 

The Man Hassan Turkur
In the words of Ambassador Jetta, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is a man of uncommon loyalty, impeccable integrity, and possesses an immense commitment to Nigeria. But it appears these great attributes might become an impediment, as his closest associate from the North, Hassan Tukur, who appears to have gained his absolute confidence, may be covertly working against his ambition to become President.

Hassan Tukur, who has been a friend to the President for a very long time and currently works as his principal secretary, may be a 'Frenemy' (one who pretends to be a friend but is actually an enemy).

Mr. Tukur is a diplomat and technocrat par excellence. His friendship with President Jonathan dates back to pre-Aso Villa days. He was President Yar'Adua's special assistant on Petroleum Resources. Tukur is assumed to be the president's closest associate from the North and is alleged to have single-handedly picked most of the regime's political appointees that were employed from the North by Goodluck Jonathan.

According to sources who have had contact with him, Tukur does not hesitate to inform you that 'he can get the President to do anything', and really in most cases he delivers; a source added.

However, Hassan Tukur,we learnt is torn between his loyalty to his boss and his kinsmen from the North, who are vehemently opposed to the President`s 2011 presidential ambition.

To this end, Tukur is alleged to have asked the President not to contest the 2011 election. But his advice has not been heeded.

Now, Hassan Tukur has pulled another fast one on his supposed friend, as he ensured his proxies did not deliver the election materials as scheduled, after they pocketed thirteen billion naira.