A former Imo State governor, Emeka Ihedioha, on Thursday, mentioned the exodus of members from the Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP) within the wake of his departure from the celebration was a vote of confidence in his management.
Ihedioha, who disclosed this throughout an interview session on Come up Information Channel’s programme ‘PrimeTime’, monitored by our correspondent, famous that he left the PDP due to his massive followership’s want for him to guide a change and rebuild Imo State.
He added that Nigerians not understand the PDP as a celebration that would take over authorities on the nationwide or state ranges, stressing that operators of the celebration had been recalcitrant and averse to reasoning with opinions that can put the celebration again on observe.
Talking on his exit from PDP, Ihedioha mentioned: “It was sure to occur. To date the tendencies working within the celebration remained there, for fairly a while, the warning pictures had been very clear, simply earlier than the election, sure there have been points, but it surely is smart that we get into the election satisfied to regain energy on the federal degree and plenty of states. However in fact, a number of issues occurred, and after the elections, the problems got here to the fore.
“We referred to as for the necessity to handle these points, however quite than handle these points and a barrage of calls for, what we noticed was an extra drift to the wishes of the folks, which could be very inconsistent with the mission and imaginative and prescient of the founding fathers of our celebration, which I might say, I had the privilege of being a founding member proper again in 1998, then in my capability because the director of the publicity of PDP. To see your celebration develop and now get to this descent, and proceed on that path of an undesirable descent, may derail you as an individual after which the intention and naturally your massive followership. So, I acted primarily primarily based on the wishes of my massive followership and my help base again at house and nationally who felt the celebration had misplaced its bearing and there’s a want for us to forge forward.
“PDP had stopped presenting itself as a celebration that would ultimately kind authorities by their current actions. It was apparent that Nigerians not understand them as a celebration that would take over authorities on the nationwide or state ranges, politics is notion. Within the final governorship election within the state, which was our most dismal, PDP didn’t win one single LGA in Imo State; after I ran for workplace in 2019, we didn’t have one single member within the Home of Meeting, however I led the celebration to victory, we gained 13 seats within the Meeting and gained the governorship election with near 100,000 votes distinction with the key opponent. In 2023, we noticed abysmal efficiency and nothing was being accomplished to treatment the scenario of the celebration.”
The previous deputy Speaker of the Home of Representatives argued that operators of the celebration had been recalcitrant and averse to reasoning with opinions that can put the celebration again on observe.
He additional acknowledged, “After I resigned, there’s a spontaneous deluge of people who find themselves profitable in several methods, who’re political leaders throughout 305 political wards, 4,800 chapters within the political celebration resigned en masse, I couldn’t have paid for that, it’s a vote of confidence in me and our want to get democracy to work and get a platform that may carry like-minds collectively to pursue progress.”
He added that those that left the celebration included a former governor, deputy governors, former ministers, members of the Home of Representatives, senatorial candidates within the final elections, a member of PDP BoT, and several other others who’re politically energetic.
