By Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja


Former Deputy Speaker of the House of
Representatives and founding member of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Chibudom
Nwuche, has resigned his membership of the
party.

In a letter dated March 29, and addressed to the
National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Adamu
Mu’azu, Nwuche said he “had watched with
dismay the party’s descent into cabalism and
god-fatherism as certain individuals became
practical owners of the party’s structures and
ensured that many persons with capacity and
integrity had no opportunity to serve and
remained shut out of governance.”

He blamed PDP leaders for not being able to
stand up in defence of the truth and in support
of the representational democracy, adding that
his decision to quit the party was made a long
time but was delayed in order to allow
conclusion of the presidential poll.

Nwuche further recalled with sadness that “most respected pioneer leaders and founding fathers of the party such as former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Chief Barnabas Gemade amongst others who were natural rallying points for the party were marginalised and have since left the party on account of these injustices” Nwuche further noted that he has “been a serial victim of this injustice in our party where my peoples’ wish to have me represent them at the senate has been frustrated twice in spite of my enormous popularity in my senatorial zone and my state as a whole, and even after winning the primaries.”

As part of the move for a possible realignment,
THISDAY gathered that the former Deputy
Speaker’s kinsmen are billed to meet with him
today at his country home in Ochigba town,
Ahoda Local Government in Rivers State to
persuade him to consider joining forces with the
All Progressives Congress (APC).

Mynd44:
Dear PDP members,

Stay in your party and grow it. Do what the APC did. That's if you dare

MzJackBaueress:
Am I supposed to be happy about this?


Its high time APC leaders put a restriction on how these PDP members defect. Its becoming like a joke to me.

ElekeNtioba:
The scrabble for APC's largesse has started. Soon, Buhari will discover dat his anti-corruption drive is untenable cos every disgruntled criminal in PDP defected to his party. So much for change.

MzJackBaueress:
Am I supposed to be happy about this?


Its high time APC leaders put a restriction on how these PDP members defect. Its becoming like a joke to me.

BlackBaron:
Lack of party ideologies is the reason why a man can wake up one morning and port to another.

Number 2 is greed.

Tomorrow, if Jonathan joins apc, they'll receive him too abi

Pavore9:
Fair weather politicians, men of no principle! Should KOWA become the ruling party tomorrow they would decamp again!