Sen. Ken Nnamani, has dumped the PDP. His resignation comes ahead of the party’s national executive committee (NEC) meeting next Wednesday. Although the former Senate president said he is stepping aside from partisan politics in the interim, Nnamani, quickly added that he would not continue to belong to a party that has refused to change.
He, in a personally signed letter which was made available to newsmen, lamented that his appeal to the party’s leadership to rebuild the party after the loss it suffered during the 2015 general elections and to end impunity, fell on deaf ears. According to his letter titled “PDP, the Burden and My Conscience,” the former PDP chieftain, stressed that those who led the party to defeat are determined to continue to lead the party as undertakers.
He regretted that the party has become that of mercenaries and rent seekers, rather than technocrats and professionals.In November 2015, Nnamani had led 33 leaders and elders of the party to partner with the national working committee (NWC) the board of trustees (BOT) and the National executive committee (NEC) to rebuild the party for the task ahead.
The group led by the former Senate president had also called for an urgent need to fill the vacancy created by resignation of the former national chairman of the Party, Ahmed Adamu Muazu, in line with Article 47(6) of PDP Constitution, which provide that “where a vacancy occurs in any offices of the party, the executive committee at the appropriate level shall appoint another person from the area or zone where the officer originated from, pending the conduct of election to fill the vacancy.”
In his letter however, Nnamani said “We need to become a party of technocrats and professionals and not a party of mercenaries and rent seekers. We need to become the party of young men and women with new ideas and not a party of political dinosaurs. It is clear now that these pleas have fallen on deaf ears,” he had advised.
“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. 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.”
The letter further read: “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.
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