{"id":57846,"date":"2022-05-27T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=57846"},"modified":"2022-05-27T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T12:00:31","slug":"charismatic-pdp-senator-abaribe-finally-leaves-party-resigns-as-minority-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=57846","title":{"rendered":"Charismatic PDP Senator, Abaribe, finally leaves party, resigns as Minority Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Above: Abaribe; Below: with APGA chiefs inviting him to join them<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eyinnaya Abaribe, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator, who gave the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), as long as he was the Minority Leader and had the floor in the Senate, has formally resigned from the party.<\/p>\n

His departure from the party did not come as a surprise to many after he withdrew from the gubernatorial primary of the party on the eve of it.<\/p>\n

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The resignation letter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Abaribe told the Senate President in his letter of resignation that he would keep him posted on his next political direction.<\/p>\n

Everyday.ng learnt that he may be headed for the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) which members met with Abaribe, pleading with him to join them.<\/p>\n

It was gathered that the Senator is likely to get the party’s ticket to slug it out with the PDP and other parties’ candidates.<\/p>\n

There are speculations that the ambition may be a tall order since Abaribe is from the same area as the outgoing governor, Okezie Ikpeazu.<\/p>\n

Recall that in a statement on Wednesday, 25th May, 2022, Abaribe, announcing his withdrawal from the PDP primary, said: \u201cThe last couple of weeks has been tortuous as we battled hard to navigate our party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) away from a self destructive path.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe essence was to create an unfettered democratic space and a level playing field for all aspirants vying for all elective offices in the state, to participate equally in the primary elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was not the case and of course what we are witnessing is a shambolic process driven by a procured court injunction.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo make matters worse, the use of only an imaginary 3-man Adhoc delegates to the exclusion of the party\u2019s statutory delegates in the primary elections to elect our candidates even when INEC the nation\u2019s electoral umpire, has unequivocally stated that no congress held in Abia State for that purpose, has no doubt put the party and her candidates in a quagmire.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe implication for our party is grave and as such has put all ongoing primary exercises on quick sand.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am known for standing firm in defence of my convictions for the right of all people to a free and fair democratic process. That was why my campaign set sail on a democratic journey that took us to all the nooks and crannies of our dear state. We covered all the local governments and we could see the enthusiasm on the faces of our people who are desirous of change to a progressive government with a human face.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe committed human and material resources, preaching the \u201cRise Up Abia\u201d message for the total emancipation of our State from the drudgery of imposition and godfatherism, which has seen the state at the lowest wrung of infrastructural, human and material development index among the states of the federation.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur people were and are indeed fired up for a new lease of life that will be brought about by a people\u2019s government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no doubt that Abians are tired of being subjected to being the butt of jokes and ridicle from their peers, particularly those from the contiguous states that were hitherto far behind Abia State in the development index in the time past.<\/p>\n

\u201dThat was the narrative we sought to change when the campaign took off.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, the ugly developments ignited by a rapacious ambition to maintain the wicked governance status quo of imposition and godfatherism have aborted this quest in PDP.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccordingly, I Senator Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe will not be part of this charade.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am therefore not participating in the exercise, which means that I will not be part of the PDP governorship primary election that holds in Abia State on Wednesday 25th of May, 2022 as doing so would have amounted to endorsement of an illegality that is already being challenged in the courts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI therefore, ask all our people, our teeming supporters and Ndigbo to remain calm, keep the faith and wait for the new direction, which will be announced very soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is important is that the campaign to liberate Abia State would surely assume a new dimension. The time is now.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for always being there for me and the campaign. Together we shall triumph.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Eyinnaya Abaribe, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator, who gave the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), as long as he was the Minority Leader and had the floor in the Senate, has formally resigned from the party. His departure from the party did not come as a surprise to many after he withdrew from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":57850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[876,1915,142],"class_list":["post-57846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-abaribe","tag-ambition","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}