The senator representing Anambra North, Emmanuel Obiajulu Anosike, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Anosike, who announced his defection in a letter, dated April 11 to PDP Chairman Ali Modu Sheriff, claimed that the events in the party showed that the philosophy of its founding fathers had been jettisoned for personal aggrandisement of a few people.
The letter reads: “The eventual emergence of the party’s flag bearer, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, in spite discernible underhand, was condoned in the belief that whatever imperfections being meted shall find further amelioration and tinkering in the course of the drive to acquire and relish national rebirth and rejuvenation. Most of us green horns held on to this philosophy, envisioning the greater tomorrow.
“But we soon discovered to our utter amazement that the intrigues, horse-trading, trade-offs, betrayals, exploitations and extortions gradually arrived to become the beacons and landmarks of our great expectations. In time, these bourgeoning lapses, shortcomings, intrigues and aberrations became repetitive in pattern and frequently, turning into the life and character of the party and ultimately its destiny.”
Anosike added: “It must be conceded that the party’s apparatchik at the national level had come to view party politics and intrigues as vintage harvest points of sort in terms of loyalty trading, finances and prerequisites of office.
“These contours of aberration took bold imprints as the honey pot ascriptions in matters that relate to Anambra State particularly and closely knit camaraderie prevail, with it a solid mechanism of oiled party administration, dynamics, and maturation.
“The question then begs: How have we fared? It serves no purpose now refreshing your memories of the ugly wrestling and castrations that stymied the Chinwoke Mbadinuju administration. In all intent and purposes, it was the first open display of undermining general over-riding interests with scornful disdain.
“We went through the half-life of Dr. Chris Ngige’s administration on a ride with the utmost heinous and devious political machinery hinged on suffocation and apparent brigandage invented or contrived by man. A governor was kidnapped, kept incommunicado, forced to pen a resignation with the active participation of a serving Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG).
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