A former Senate President and founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Ken Nnamani, has announced that he is quitting the party “without any iota of bitterness” in his heart.
In a statement issued on Saturday, Nnamani said he was leaving the party because it had abandoned “the path of its noble vision and values”, stressing that he was fed up with the current status and direction of the PDP.
In the statement entitled, “PDP, the Burden and My Conscience,” the Enugu-born politician said, “I do not believe I should continue to be a member of the PDP as it is defined today.
“This is certainly not the party I joined years ago to help change my country. I do not also believe that the PDP as it is managed today will provide an opportunity for me to continue to play the politics of principles and values which I set for myself as a young man on leaving graduate school and working for a large multinational in the United States in the 70s and 80s.
“Therefore, today I resign my membership of the PDP. In stepping out of partisan politics for the meantime, I will continue to be politically engaged. I will also continue to support the government and all the elected officers in Nigeria to repositioning the nation.
“I will also constructively criticize tand when by commission or omission they take actions that could damage the prospects of transforming Nigeria into a productive, merit-based and honestly governed country.”
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