2023 Polls: Atiku’s Presidential Bid Suffers Major Hit As Influential PDP Chieftain Dumps Party
- The build-up to next month's presidential elections has not been rosy for Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
- The PDP, in the latest hit, lost the membership of Professor Alphonsus Nwosu, a member of the party's Board of Trustees (BoT)
- Prof Nwosu, in his resignation note, said his reason for quitting the party is because of its inability to obey its own law
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) continues to plunge into crisis with less than 45 days to the 2023 presidential elections.
According to a Daily Trust report on Friday, January 13, the PDP lost the membership of one of its prominent old guards and a member of the party’s Board of Trustees, Professor Alphonsus Nwosu.
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Prof Nwosu, a former minister under the administration of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo tendered his resignation stating that he left the party because of its inability to maintain its zoning policy.
Why Prof Nwosu left PDP
In a letter dated Thursday, January 12, where he copied the acting PDP BoT chairman and the chairman Ward 1, Nnewi, the former PDP chieftain said:
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“This resignation for me is a matter of conscience and principle because of the party’s inability to adhere to the rotation provision in its (PDP) Constitution,”
“The journey to rotational presidency between the North and South of Nigeria has been a long and arduous one and I have been involved. Nigeria and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) must learn to keep to an agreement reached by a Constituent Assembly (1995), and enshrined in the Party’s (PDP) Constitution (1998).”
Prof Nwosu’s reason to quit the party is one of the causes of the ongoing crisis in the PDP.
As the election draws closer, the party is divided due to a number of disparities attributed to the leadership structure of the party. Even Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state accused the party of a lack of inclusivity, serial nepotism and lack of fairness.
2023 election: More drama for PDP as spokesperson dumps party
In another development, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) continues to suffer major setbacks with less than seven weeks to the much-anticipated general elections.
In Gombe state, the party lost one of its powerful chieftains to the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).
Murtala Usman Dukku, who served as the party spokesperson in Gombe state joined the long list of party chieftains to join the NNPP.
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