YAHAYA KWANDE DUMPS PDP Ambassador Yahaya Kwande, a foundation member of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has finally bid farewell to the party saying he in quitting because the party cannot provide the impetus for the political development of the country as envisaged by the founding fathers of the party. Kwande who made his position clear yesterday in an exclusive interview with our reporter said he is moving to the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) which was recently registered as a political party. Speaking after a meeting of the national leaders of PDM and stakeholders held at the party’s headquarters in Abuja to put in place the national Advisory Committee members of the party which he also attended, Kwande said “Today is the day that I say I am no more in the PDP. Otherwise, I have been waiting to see whether they will correct the wrong and negative happenings in the party because I always thought the PDP was a party to be, we started with it and we put in president. The first term of Obasanjo’s rule was helping this country but now, everybody seems to have abandoned the ordinary person in Nigeria, they are only thinking of themselves. Why should we stay in a party that is going sour? So tell everybody today that I am in PDM,” he said. Explaining why he had decided to quit PDP for PDM, Kwande said “Whem PDM was registered, I was away from this country and as for me, I thought I wasn’t consulted enough but having seen the situation of Nigeria today, PDP has been hijacked by the eastern part of this country and what you now call APC has also been dominated by the western zone of this country. If fact, it symbol shows that it is the grand child of the Action Congress.” “It appeared that we wanted this country to remain united and equally developed, so we had to have another party and particularly the PDM that will continue its efforts of bridging the gap in the north and that is why I decided to accept what my colleagues in the PDM have done by registering PDM as a party,” he said. Kwande said that the PDM is a strong political party built on the virtues of justice, equity, good governance and unity of the country adding that no force would deter the party and thwart it from succeeding in its ideals. He described as wrong, the notion that the refusal of some members that were in the pressure group to join the PDM as a registered political party would affect the political success of the party noting that democracy allows freedom of association for every citizen. He urged PDM members and Nigerians at large to believe in the ability of PDM to deepen democracy in the country stressing that the aim of the opposition is to win elections and take over the mantle of leadership “to correct the ills of political activities in Nigeria.” Kwande who blamed the ruling PDP for the wrong and negative happenings in the political arena added that those opposed to PDM should not be happy over what is going on in the PDP. He said Chief Tony Anenih’s refusal to join the party will not affect its chances. “It is impossible for us to just think that one person can cause our party to fall. He is not the only one, why do people keep on calling Tony Anenih, why don’t you mention Professor Angwo Abdullahi , who was also with us and others?” He supported the G-7 governors explaining that it is the practice of democracy that allows them to do what they are doing.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:41:59 +0000
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