JUST-IN: APC NWC Member Dumps Party, Joins SDP In Kogi

The deputy national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Murtala Yakubu Ajaka, has resigned his position in the party.

In a letter written to the National Chairman of APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, the former APC governorship aspirant in Kogi State said the decision followed his resignation of his membership of the governing party at his Ajaka Ward 1 level, Igalamela/Odolu local government area of Kogi State.

He praised the APC national chairman for the feats recorded by the party under him and as well his fellow NWC members, saying he was only quitting the APC based on principle and hoping to meet them again.

“I write to inform your good self and the National Working Committee (NWC) of our great Party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), of my decision to resign my office as the Deputy National Publicity Secretary and also as member of the NWC.

“This gesture is a consequential act to the resignation of my membership, notice of which I have already communicated in writing to the Chairman of APC, Ajaka Ward 1 in Igalamela/Odolu LGA of Kogi State.

“Kindly permit me to extol the exemplary brinkmanship, astuteness, sagacity and political dexterity with which Your Excellency, being supported by the current National Working Committee have successfully bonded the hitherto fragile fabrics of the Party; firmly enough to record the most eminent victories in the last general elections.

“Having proudly won the presidential election, therefore, I have the utmost faith that the Party, under your able charge will help the in-coming administration to upgrade the standard of governance for the greater good of Nigerians.

“I also, by this medium wish to thank my fellow NWC members for their extra-ordinary camaraderie while we worked together. It is my hope that we are parting ways on the basis of principle, only to meet again, in due course,” Ajaka wrote.

LEADERSHIP reports that posters of Ajaka vying for the Kogi State governorship position on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) are now everywhere in the State, a pointer that he might have quit the APC in order to contest in the November election.