I Was Deceived And Defrauded By APC - House Of Reps Member Cries Out After Dumping Party
The All Progressives Congress member of the House of
Representatives, Mr Musa Soba, on Wednesday carried out his threat to
leave the party by resigning his membership, saying he was deceived.
According to a report by Punch, Soba, who is from Kaduna State, is
one of the over 70 aggrieved APC lawmakers, who protested their loss of
return tickets but lost at the appeal panel of the APC.
Speaker Yakubu Dogara read Soba’s resignation letter to members on the floor in Abuja.
The lawmaker told his colleagues that his next political party would be disclosed soon.
Soba, who was furious, wrote in his resignation letter, the reasons he dumped the APC.
He accused the party of deceiving and defrauding him.
Dogara described the letter as “an epistle” before reading it.
The letter read partly, “As you are aware, the APC is yet to
recover from the self-inflicted injury occasioned by double standard,
indiscipline and sheer impunity in the conduct of its affairs.
“It is regrettable that the APC, which has enjoyed a lot of
goodwill after its formation which culminated in our electoral victory
in 2015, is now in disarray due to a complex mixture of ineptitude and
inability to understand the dynamics of power in a democratic system of
government.
“Mr Speaker, I have been personally short-changed by a system I
so much trusted and believed in. I have also been serially deceived and
defrauded by a political party I helped to nurture and sustain.
However, it is the sharp division within the APC members and the mutual
antagonism between the membership and the leadership of the APC more
than any other factor that propelled me to take my exit.
The letter read further, “Accordingly, I wish to place it on
record that from today 24th October, 2018, I cease to be a member of the
APC, having tendered my resignation letter to all the relevant party
organs.
“Since the political horizon is wide enough to accommodate my
ideology and aspirations, I shall announce the name of my new political
party in the next few days.”
When the final list of candidates was submitted to the Independent
National Electoral Commission in Abuja on Thursday last week, The PUNCH
gathered that the majority of the aggrieved members were not captured.
Those confirmed to be on the list were the Chairman, House
Committee on Financial Crimes, Mr Kayode Oladele; Mr Isiaka Ibrahim, Mr
Baderinwa White, Mr Aminu Malle, Mr Goodluck Opia, Mr Mayowa
Akinfolarin, Mr Lado Abdullahi and Mr Jimoh Oladele.
The aggrieved members have been meeting since the final list was submitted to take a decision on their political future.
The PUNCH learnt that the meetings were rounded off on Tuesday with
the position that the affected members would leave the party in
batches, starting from yesterday.
Recall that two weeks ago, President Muhammadu Buhari summoned the
aggrieved lawmakers to a meeting at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in a
bid to pacify them.
He had reportedly called the meeting following threats issued by
the members that they would either dump the APC or work against it in
2019.
But, the presidential intervention did not do much to help the fate of the lawmakers.
Another lawmaker from Kogi State, Mr Hassan Omale, also defected
from the Peoples Democratic Party to the African Democratic Congress on
Wednesday (yesterday).
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