Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party and resigned his position as the Senate Minority Leader due to “shameful display of illegality, impunity and undemocratic decision of the party.”
Abaribe, who had earlier pulled out from PDP’s Abia State governorship race, announced his exit from the party and as a minority leader in separate letters addressed to the ward chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State and the President of the Senate in the National Assembly.
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The letter titled “Resignation of my membership from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,” read in part, “I write to inform you of my decision to resign as a member of (the) Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“This development is consequent upon the shameful display of illegality, impunity and undemocratic decision of the party and after due consultations with my constituents.”
The letter addressed to the President of the Senate, Senator Lawan Ahmed, titled, “Notification of Resignation from the Membership of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Senate,” read in part, “This is to notify you and my dear colleagues in the Senate that I have formally resigned my membership of the Peoples Democratic Party through my ward. This also means my resignation as (the) Minority Leader of the Senate.”
“I wish to thank you and my dear colleagues in the Leadership of the Senate for the warm camaraderie we enjoyed while I was Minority Leader.”
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