Nnamani Dumps PDP, Stays away from Partisan Politics

Nnamani Dumps PDP, Stays away from Partisan Politics

Todaty, former Senate President and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ken Nnamani has finally dumped the party, Sen. Ken. He added that he was also going to stay out of partisan politics for the time being.

Nnamani allegedly gave notice of his resignation from the PDP in a letter to the party's leadership obtained by journalists

While giving reasons for dumping the party, he regretted that his advice and appeal  to the party leadership to rebuild the party after it lost the 2015 elections and end impunity fell on deaf ears.

"We need to become a party of technocrats and professionals and not a party of mercenaries and rent seekers. We need to become the party of young men and women with new ideas and not a party of political dinosaurs. It is clear now that these pleas have fallen on deaf ears," he had advised.

Nnamani had, along with 33 leaders and elders of the party  who attended the National Working Committee (NWC) last year, agreed to partner with  the Board of Trustees (BOT) and the National Executive Committee (NEC) to rebuild the party.

The group led by the former Senate President had also said that there was an  urgent need to fill the vacancy created by resignation of the former National Chairman of the Party, Ahmed Adamu Muazu, in line with Article 47(6) of PDP Constitution, which provide that "where a vacancy occurs in any offices of the Party, the Executive Committee at the appropriate level shall appoint another person from the area or zone where the officer originated from, pending the conduct of election to fill the vacancy."

Nnamani, in his letter titled, "PDP, the Burden and My  Conscience," which he personally signed, said: "Without any iota of bitterness in my heart,  I have decided to disengage from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and consequently step aside from partisan politics in the interim. I wish to express my profound gratitude to the party that gave me the platform with which I attained the height I did in the politics of our country."

The letter further read: "How I wish the efforts I mounted with some of my colleagues (many of whom have left the party) to keep the PDP on the path of its noble vision and values had been supported by those who were privileged to be at the helm of affairs of the party, it would have been a different day for the PDP. It would have been a day of victory and pride not of defeat and shame.”