Ahead of 2019 governorship election
in Ogun State, the State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship
candidate in 2015, Prince Gboyega Isiaka, has dumped his party.
Isiaka who had contested the
governorship on two previous occasions on the platform of the PDP both in
2011 and 2015 tendered a letter of resignation of his membership of the
party.
A copy of his resignation letter dated
May 24 and addressed to the state PDP chairman, was obtained by our
correspondent in Abeokuta. Isiaka, who said the decision was not an easy one
for him, noted that the crisis rocking the party in the state had proved
intractable ahead of another general elections.
The Ogun PDP had been factionalized
between loyalists of Senator Buruji Kashamu representing Ogun East Senatorial
District and a House of Representatives member, Oladipupo Adebutu, from Remo
Federal Constituency.
Isiaka said he was leaving the PDP
to continue his partisan political career “by charting a new course.”
He lamented that genuine steps taken
by few patriots within the opposition party to close up the fault lines and
return it to glory days have been to no avail.
The letter partly read, “I am using
this medium to convey the decision to resign my membership of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), effective from today 24th May, 2018.
“This has not been an easy one for
me as I recall with nostalgia, the opportunities and privileges which the
membership of this party conferred on my political career; the peak of which
was the kind consideration given me to be the flag bearer of the PDP in the
last gubernatorial election in Ogun State.
“You will recall that the PDP,
especially in our state, has been through a rough patch in the last couple of
years, and after two successive electoral losses, the search for lasting peace
is still elusive. Despite the genuine steps taken by few patriots within the
party to close up the fault lines and return the party to glory days, all have
been to no avail.
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