PDP Crisis: Atiku, Okowa Receive Another Big Blow As Powerful Chieftain Dumps Party Amidst Tension

PDP Crisis: Atiku, Okowa Receive Another Big Blow As Powerful Chieftain Dumps Party Amidst Tension

  • Faith Majemite, a chieftain of the PDP and former chairman of Ethiope local government in Delta state, has dumped the party
  • The PDP stalwart resigned her membership from the party noting that the ruling party in the state has ignored its ethics and ideology, and now lacked respects
  • In her resignation letter to the chairman of ward 6, Ethiope LG and state party chairmen, she did not indicate her next political move

Asaba, Delta - The wind of tension growing in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not just with the aggrieved governors, but the constituency of the party's vice presidential candidate is not also in order.

This is as Faith Majemite, a prominent PDP chieftain in Delta state, resigned her membership from the party for disrespecting her and her teaming supporters, This Day reported.

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PDP chieftain resigns her membership in Delta state

Majemite was the only elected local government chairman in the state before the state held another local council poll last year.

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The former chairman of the Ethiope east local government area communicated her decision to leave the PDP in a letter dated to December 28.

She addressed the letter to the chairman of her local government and copied the ward 6 chairman and the state chairman.

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Majemite claimed that the PDP no longer holds on to its ethics, ideology and value of inclusiveness that the foundation leaders have envisioned.

The former PDP chieftain kept mute on her next political move at a time when the campaign for the 2023 election is tense.

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Legit.ng earlier reported that Mudasiru Baraka, a grassroots PDP mobiliser at ward 4 Tengba in the Oyo east LGA of Oyo state has been assassinated.

Akeem Olatunji, the spokesperson of the PDP in the state, in a statement, alleged that his death was sponsored by the state chapter of the APC.

The PDP then demanded justice, while calling on the state commissioner of police, Adebowale Williams, to ensure that the culprits are brought to book.

Source: Legit.ng

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Bada Yusuf (Politics and Current Affairs Editor) Yusuf Amoo Bada is an accomplished writer with 7 years of experience in journalism and writing, he is also politics and current affairs editor with Legit.ng. He holds B.A in Literature from OAU, and Diploma in Mass Comm. He has obtained certificates in Advance Digital Reporting, News Lab workshop, Journalism AI Discovery. He previously worked as Editor with OperaNews. Legit’s Best Editor of the Year for Politics and Current Affairs Desk (2023). Contact: bada.yusuf.amoo@corp.legit.ng