Former Speaker of the House of Representatives
Alhaji Ghali Umar Na’Abba has dumped the ruling
People’s Democratic Party (PDP), saying the party
has lost its soul.
He becomes the fifth speaker to dump the PDP.
The current Speaker, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal
defected to the opposition APC in October. Others
before him that dumped the PDP are Aminu Bello
Masari, Patricia Etteh, Dimeji Bankole.
Na’Abba announced his resignation in a letter
dated March 15, entitled “Notification of
Resignation from PDP, Its Organs and
Committees”, addressed to his ward chairman,
Sharada ward Kano Municipal local government
area.
The letter was also copied to the party’s Chairman
Kano Municipal; Chairman Kano State; Vice
Chairman North West Zone; National Chairman and
the Chairman Board of Trustees (BOT).
In his resignation letter, Na’Abba said no
administration in the history of Nigeria had used
religion and ethnicity to divide Nigerians more than
the current administration under Mr. Jonathan.
He said: “You will agree with me that such
pervasive political behaviour should under no
circumstances be tolerated by all who subscribe to
decent and conscionable political practice.
Nigeria, PDP leadership cabalised
He added: “The Country’s and the Party’s
leadership have become cabalised to the extent
that while Nigerians are aware that they have a
President in the person of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan,
they are at the same time at a loss as to who
governs their country.
“Both Nigeria and the PDP are left to drift,” he
said. “It has left us with the conventional wisdom
that people cannot succeed in life unless they are
ruthless and unprincipled.”
According to him, “It is obvious to me that PDP is
both self-destruct and irredeemable.”
For Nigerians to secure a new lease of life, he said,
they should “get out this inept leadership that has
neither allure nor inspiration.”
He added: “In its place, Nigerians deserve not just
a good President, good governors, and other
political office holders, but true and exemplary
leaders.”
Na’Abba said such leaders must have competence
and capacity to govern and a clear vision for the
future.
The PDP, he noted, “has become characterized by
corruption and impunity in the way and manner
candidates for elective positions are being selected
to the extent that in almost twenty states, crisis
has engulfed the Party over the gubernatorial
primaries and the manner other candidates for
other elective positions emerged.”
Na’Abba contended that the PDP and the country’s
leadership had failed to consolidate democratic
gains for sister African Countries and other
transition countries to follow.
“Under the current leadership, Nigeria is suffering
from loss of esteem, as we are now most often
consigned to the back seat of international
relations.
“Most worrisome is the current anxiety of most
Nigerians as the regime wobbles and tumbles
toward the oncoming election.
“It has today become incontrovertible that cartels
and shady characters are becoming visible,
important and indispensable factors in Nigeria’s
governance.
Patriots not respected
“It appears those at the helm of affairs are more
comfortable with such characters of easy virtue
than with patriotic and altruistic Nigerians.”
Na’Abba who was speaker between 1999 and 2003
expressed concerns that in Nigeria today the
quality of governance was going down by the day
even as he said critical National Institutions that
unified and wielded Nigerians together had been
dragged into politics, contrary to wise counsel and
political correctness.
“I have relentlessly pushed for reform of the
internal policies of the PDP individually and
collectively, without success. In fact it is common
knowledge that all critical members of the Party
have been made irrelevant.”
He noted that members of the party who are pliant
and who lack principle and who stand for nothing
are always more trusted by the leadership to carry
out party assignments because they are said to be
“loyal.”
“Such loyalty,” he said, “is nothing but a
euphemism for people who stand for nothing.”
Why founding fathers are leaving the PDP
He said it pains most of them that majority of the
founding fathers that had died like Chief S.M.
Afolabi, Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar Rimi, Chief
Solomon Lar, Professor Osammor, Chief S. B.
Awoniyi etc all died as a result of their frustration
by and with the Party,” he lamented.
However, according to him, even those founding
fathers who are still living like Dr. Alex Ekwueme,
Malam Adamu Chiroma, Dr Shettima Mustapha,
Alhaji Asheikh Jarma Dr, Victor Odili, Mr. Isaac
Shaahu and many others “are equally living with
such frustration.While others like Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar, Alhaji Isyaku Ibrahim, Alhaji Musa
Gwadabe, two former National Chairmen, Chief
Audu Ogbe and Chief Barnabas Gemade etc had
since left the Party. The Party and
theadministration clearly possess neither
compassion nor empathy.
“I pray that your mind and those of other Patriots
would also be illuminated with truth so that you
may also act wisely and accordingly.”
Speaking with Daily Trust after releasing his
resination later, Ghali said it was necessary for him
to leave the PDP because it had lost its soul and
the deterioration in the party had become
“irredeemable.”
The former Speaker said by resigning few weeks to
the election, he is sending “signal’ to his
supporters and followers all over the country not to
cast their votes for the PDP.
I may join another party
On whether he would join the opposition All
Progressives Congress (APC), which has been
making gains from the gale of defections in the
PDP, Na’Abba said “I may join another party in the
next few days and I may decide to do so after the
election.”
He alleged that the PDP had been distributing
money to aggrieved party members not to defect
to other political parties but that “I was not
approached because they know that I can’t be
bought over.”
The former Speaker said the PDP “has been losing
its sons and daughters including so many of its
founding fathers and members by the day adding,
“I will not stay for the house to fall me.”
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many devils in the previous administration now claiming.

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Welcome to the saints party, where current thief become saint by changing from PDP to APC








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