A further depletion of the ranks of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came yesterday, as a former senate president, Senator Ken Nnamani, announced his resignation from the party.
Nnamani, a member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the party, also declared that he was momentarily quitting partisan politics. He didn’t indicate when he would return to active politics and which party to join. In a letter entitled: ‘PDP, the Burden and My Conscience,’ Nnamani said he took the decision after all efforts to refocus and rebuild the party had proved abortive, blaming some elements in the opposition party for its dwindling fortune.
Nnamani is a member of the Leaders and Elders Committee of PDP which has been churning out recommendations on how to reorganize and reform the party. He was tipped to emerge as the next BoT Chairman by most members of the committee.
His letter read: “Without any iota of bitterness in my heart, I have decided to disengage from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and consequently step aside from partisan politics in the interim.”
The former senate president who is popularly remembered for presiding over the senate that killed the tenure elongation, also known as third term clause, said he would remain grateful to PDP. His words: “I wish to express my profound gratitude to the party that gave me the platform with which I attained the height I did in the politics of our country. How I wish the efforts I mounted with some of my colleagues (many of whom have left the party) to keep the PDP on the path of its noble vision and values had been supported by those who were privileged to be at the helm of affairs of the party, it would have been a different day for the PDP. It would have been a day of victory and pride not of defeat and shame.”
“I recall that the virus of corruption of values and mission was what those of my colleagues and I set out to cure through the formation of the PDP Reform Forum in 2010/11. We worked hard to draw up a new direction for the party. This was to help steer the party away from illegality and impropriety so that PDP can fulfill its promise of being a vanguard of Nigeria’s political and economic development. A direction defined by strict adherence to basic rules and morality in the management of party affairs. Chief of these values is respect for choice of party members in electing party candidates for elections. With more than half a decade of championing such a fundamental but simple idea, I regret that the PDP leadership continues to rebuff internal democracy. “
According to him, “PDP allowed itself to be blinded by hubris to believe that it will remain in power and influence for 60 years in spite of several gross missteps and grievous misnomer. We foresaw this ditch and prescribed how to avert falling into it. But we were dismissed as idealistic. Today, the idealists have become realists.”
He said he had lost confidence in the capacity of the PDP to provide opportunity for him to continue to play the politics of principles and values he believes in.
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