Former governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju, has formally resigned his membership of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, for the All Progressives Congress, APC.
According to the former governor, PDP has lost all known democratic tenets and virtues.
Mbadinuju in a press conference Monday in Abuja, said he had written his ward in Anambra to inform them of his decision.
According to him, the decision is painful but necessary. He stressed that former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s open action of tearing his PDP’s membership card recently was an indication that all was not well with the party.
Accompanied to the conference by two APC chieftains; Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu and Prince Tony Momoh, Mbadinuju added that APC had proven itself a promising party for the country’s future.
He said: “I have called this World Press Conference to inform members of the public that I have last week written to the PDP executive committee of my Ward, Umuaku Ward of Ihiala LGA of Anambra State withdrawing my membership of the Party and conversely registered with the All Progressives Congress, APC.
“It is a painful but necessary action that I had to take. It is painful because, as a founding member of the PDP in 1998 who toiled hard to ensure that it gained acceptance of the majority of our people, I had very high hopes for the party.
“But it is necessary to join the APC now because it is the right thing to do. While the APC has proven itself as a promising party of present and future, we can all see glaringly that everything good about the PDP has since vanished. The tearing of the PDP membership card last week by no less a person than former President Obasanjo is a symbolic attestation to this truth.”
Mbadinuju, who was governor of Anambra State between 1999 and 2003, said he tried his best to bring back PDP to the path of internal democracy but the effort was frustrated.
“It is on record that I tried all within my powers, along with a number of well-meaning PDP members in the state, to achieve this noble objective through the entrenchment of internal and participatory democracy.
“But all our efforts were rebuffed as people of questionable character were allowed free hands to do with the party according to their whims and caprices.
“Ethics and values were thrown to the dogs. PDP became an unjust and unfair political party; with no truth in its mouth, no compassion in its heart, no sincerity in its purpose and its actions,” he said.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. He can as well form his own party.
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