Breaking: Like Peter Obi, Hayatu-Deen withdraws from PDP presidential race, says process ‘monetised, corrupt, self-serving’

Breaking: Like Peter Obi, Hayatu-Deen withdraws from PDP presidential race, says process ‘monetised, corrupt, self-serving’

Mohammed Hayatu-Deen

A former Managing Director and Chief Executive of FSB International Bank, Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, has withdrawn from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential race, saying “the process has been obscenely monetised”.

Few hours to the PDP National Convention to elect a 2023 Presidential candidate, Hayatu – Deen in a letter addressed to the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, dated May 28, 2022 said, “the campaign has reinforced his resolve that Nigeria must be saved, otherwise the future is doomed.”

He lamented that “for years he observed with great concern and sorrow the recent rapid deterioration of all aspects of Nigeria’s national life characterised by increasing poverty, religious intolerance, banditry and kidnapping, monumental oil theft, corruption, mismanagement of national assets, communal and religious strifes and near collapse of public services and public institutions.”

The letter partly read, “We planned to make…

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