former Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Ghali Na’Abba, has dumped
Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP.
In his resignation letter dated March 15, Mr.
Na’Abba, who led the legislative chamber
during the Olusegun Obasanjo presidency,
accused President Goodluck Jonathan of
reducing governance to a ridiculous level and
splitting the country along ethnic and religious
lines.
The ex-lawmaker’s letter was sent to the
chairman of the PDP Sharada Ward in Kano
Municipal Local Government Area and titled
“Notification of Resignation from PDP, each
organs and committees.”
The letter was also copied to the PDP
chairman in Kano, North West Zone
National Vice Chairman, National Chairman,
and Chairman of the party’s Board of
Trustees.
Mr. Na’Abba blamed President Jonathan and
other previous leaders of the PDP, which has
ruled Nigeria since 1999, of putting the
country in in a bad situation.
“In the sixteen years the Party has been
ruling at the center, the Party’s leadership has
failed to lead by example,” he said.
He, however, had the harshest criticism for the
current president, saying, “No administration
has used religion and ethnicity to divide
Nigerians more than the current
administration under the leadership of Mr.
Goodluck Jonathan.”
The former lawmaker did not state if he was
joining any other party but told PREMIUM
TIMES on phone that he was being lobbied
by other parties to join them. His supporters in
Kano, whose governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso,
also dumped the PDP for the All Progressices
Congress, APC, however expect the ex-
lawmaker to also join the main oppostion
party.
Read excerpts of his resignation letter below.
“You are no doubt aware of the abysmal level
to which the leadership of our great Country
under President Goodluck Jonathan and the
Peoples Democratic Party have reduced
governance to, as a result of which our great
Party has been losing its sons and daughters
including so many of its founding fathers and
members by the day,” the Kano-born
lawmaker stated.
“All efforts of critical members and fathers of
the Party to offer advice remain always
unheeded. It pains most of us 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.
“Those 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 the administration clearly
possess neither compassion nor empathy.
“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. In the sixteen
years the Party has been ruling at the center,
the Party’s leadership has failed to lead by
example.
“Instead, it has left us with the conventional
wisdom that people cannot succeed in life
unless they are ruthless and unprincipled. The
Party 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.
“In short, the Party and the Country’s
leadership have failed to consolidate democratic
gains for sister African Countries and other
transition Countries to follow. Instead, 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. It appears those at the
helm of affairs are more comfortable with such
characters of easy virtue than with patriotic
and altruistic Nigerians. No doubt, in our
Country today, the quality of governance is
going down by the day.
“Critical National Institutions that unify and
wield Nigerians together have been dragged
into politics, contrary to wise counsel and
political correctness. No administration has
used religion and ethnicity to divide Nigerians
more than the current administration under
the leadership of Mr. Goodluck Jonathan. The
ultimate test of any leader is looking at what
has remained after he is gone.
“You will agree with me that such pervasive
political behavior should under no
circumstances be tolerated by all who subscribe
to decent and conscionable political practice. 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 by the
Party.
“Members who are pliant and who lack
principle and who stand for nothing are
always more trusted by the leadership to carry
out Party assignments. Such members are said
to be “loyal”. Such loyalty is nothing but a
euphemism for people who stand for nothing.
Because no one is trusted by the leadership
both at governmental and party levels, only a
handful of party men and women are always
entrusted with such party tasks as National
Conventions, fund raising. Such men and
women are now fully re circled.
“Their faces are today so familiar to the eyes
of Nigerians.As a politician with political
science background, it is obvious to me that
PDP is both self-destruct and irredeemable.
Coupled with the regimes divisive and
unpatriotic disposition, Nigeria has become a
bye-word for “touch and go”, if examples of
contemporary nations are anything to go by.
The challenge before Nigerians today, in order
to secure a new lease of life therefore, is how
to get out this inept leadership that has
neither allure nor inspiration.
“In its place, Nigerians deserve not just a
good President, good governors , and other
political office holders, but true and exemplary
leaders. And within this context, leadership
that is more truly both transactional and
transformative and which have more
competence and capacity to govern. Nigeria
needs leaders with a clear vision for the future.
Leaders that will lead not from the back, side
or front but from within. Leaders that will
provide courageous and moral leadership the
dearth of which has led to the weakening of
political and economic institutions throughout
Nigeria.
“For the above and many reasons, effective
today 15th March 2015, I hereby tender my
resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party,
it’s organs including the Board of Trustees
and all other committees to which I belong at
National and State levels.
“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. This comes with the renewed
assurances of my highest consideration and
personal respect”.

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Hahaha, let d dumping games begin..
Wat a source

PDP's survival depends on if Jonathan wins the next election.Their existence and relevance depends on it.

Counting...
Who's next?

not bothered....

What a sensible and a dignified way to dump a party. Hausa people sabi politics no be small. See how Buhari wife dey show class while the other woman dey show crap!

hahaha....seee politics abeg