The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has failed to respect its own constitution on power rotation between the North and South, a Board of Trustees member, Professor Alphonsus Nwosu, has said.
The former minister in the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in a letter to the acting chairman of the party’s BoT, Adolphus Wabara on Thursday explained that the party had gone against its own constitution on rotation of the presidency.
He said he was resigning his membership of citing the party’s refusal to stick to the zoning formula.
Professor Nwosu, did not declare which party he would join, but added that his resignation was based on conscience and principle.
According to the letter he also communicated to the party chairman of PDP, Ward 1, Nnewi, “this resignation for me is a matter of conscience and principle because of the party’s inability to adhere to the rotation provision in its (PDP) Constitution,” he wrote.
“The journey to rotational presidency between the North and South of Nigeria has been a long and arduous one and I have been involved. Nigeria and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) must learn to keep to an agreement reached by a Constituent Assembly (1995); and enshrined in the Party’s (PDP) Constitution (1998).”
The resignation of Nwosu has added to the woes of the PDP whose presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar is deep at loggerheads with five governors led by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike and four of his colleagues.
The Wike group has since created a faction with the PDP naming it New Integrity Group, and is demanding that the party’s National Chairman Iyorchia Ayu must quit to make way for a souther candidate.
All efforts to resolve this lingering had hit the rocks including the interventions by Governor Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom State who met with Wike and their Benue State counterpart Sanuel Ortom behind closed doors.
it would be recalled that Atiku too recently revealed that he has met with Wike groups three times and was awaiting their response.
As at that time of this report, the New Integrity Group has not responded positively to tAtiku’s peace overtures.
