Kassim Afegbua resigns from PDP

Newsdiary

A Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Afegbua has resigned his membership of the party over non-compliance with zoning of the 2023 presidential ticket to southern part of the country.

Afegbua made this known in a resignation letter addressed to the PDP Chairman, ward 5 Okpella, Edo State made available to Newsdiaryonline.

The letter reads in part:”Let me use this medium to convey to you,  my resignation from being a member of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, Ward 5, Awuyemi, Okpella. 

“My reason is borne out of my long held and well publicised position that it is the turn of the Southern part of Nigeria to produce the next president in line with the provisions of Article 7 of the party’s constitution. Since the party has jettisoned the provision and manipulated the convention by eliminating zoning, my aspiration as a member is impaired.

“The same Party that eliminated zoning has all of a sudden, settled for a running mate from the South in person of Senator Ifeayin Arthur Okowa. I would have thought that having eliminated zoning, the candidate would choose his vice from any part of the country; including the zones of the North. This reality presents a hypocritical emanation that can neither stand the true test of justice, fairness and equity nor prospective legal challenges.

“For the above reasons only, I align myself with the considered standpoint of the APC Northern Governors who spoke so eloquently about the need to allow power to rotate to the South, in the true spirit of fairness, equity and justice.

“The considered and patriotic position of the APC Northern Governors remains unassailable, and I wholeheartedly align myself with their position; taking into account the hetereogenous configurations of Nigeria. This is without any affiliation or involvement with the APC, whose hitherto uninspiring leadership I have been a vocal critic of, or any other political party.

“What the PDP power apparachik has done was to supplant justice with injustice in its desperation to return to power. Power for power sake without recourse to the psyche of its members and the equitability of power acquisition and distribution, is an invitation to political instability…