Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) party Chief and one of the contenders for the party’s Chairmanship seat, Chief Bode George has withdrawn from the race, stating that the “party is bent on self-destruction.”
Chief George, who made this announcement during a conference in Abuja on Friday stressed that he did not step down for anybody, emphasising that his “measure of experience is too heavy” for him to cowardly step out of the race.
“What I am stepping down for is the process. The issue of micro-zoning has been destroyed. Every position is micro zoned. I am withdrawing purely on principle. You can know the way the party use to bubble and we see it as a brotherly union. “From what happened before I thought we could manage it but it is obvious that they system has been bastardized,”
“I entered the contest on the micro-zoning principle, which has been thrashed by little men who have compromised. It appears the PDP is bent on self-destruction. I can’t be part of this. The chairmanship position has been sold to the highest bidder,”
he said the South West is already cheated with the entrants of aspirants from the South-South.
George also said that Nyesom Wike, the Governor of Rivers State abused the Yoruba people on a national Television when he said the South West has never contributed anything meaningful to the success of the PDP.
He said Governor Wike must tender an unreserved apology to the Yoruba people for his unguarded utterances against the Yoruba race. I listened to my younger brother and I see it as an insult. I consider it as an insult.
The PDP is now mangled. “I hereby withdraw from the fraud. As a Yoruba patriot, I will stand for our people.
“Governor Wike must tender an unreserved apology to the Yoruba people for his unguarded utterances against the Yoruba race.
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