A former President of the Senate, Ken Nnamani, has resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP). In a statement released on Saturday, entitled, “PDP, the Burden and My Conscience,” Nnamani said: “I do not believe I should continue to be a member of the PDP as it is defined today.This is certainly not the party I joined years ago to help change my country. I do not also believe that the PDP as it is managed today will provide an opportunity for me to continue to play the politics of principles and values which I set for myself as a young man on leaving graduate school and working for a large multinational in the United States in the 70s and 80s.
“Therefore, today I resign my membership of the PDP. In stepping out of partisan politics for the meantime, I will continue to be politically engaged. I will also continue to support the government and all the elected officers in Nigeria to repositioning the nation. I will also constructively criticize them when by commission or omission they take actions that could damage the prospects of transforming Nigeria into a productive, merit-based and honestly governed country. 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.”
