Former Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
A one-term Senator. who represented his district between 2015 and 2019, Melaye anchored his resignation on PDP’s failure to rescue Nigeria from what he described as ‘the prevailing political cankerworms’.
His resignation was contained in a letter dated 30 July and addressed to the PDP Chairman of Ward 1 in Aiyetoro Gbede, Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State.
‘This decision has become imperative due to the lack of potency and capacity by the party to deliver the Nigerian people from the prevailing political cankerworms that have eaten deeply into the fabric of our dear nation’, Melaye wrote.
The close ally of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has been associating with the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Melaye becomes the latest chieftain to resign from the PDP following the formation of the opposition coalition.
He was a member of the House of Representations for Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu federal constituency between 2007 and 2011.
Former Senate President David Mark, Atiku, Bashorun Dele Momodu are among those who had left PDP for the ADC.
Mark is currently the interim national chairman of the ADC, the platform adopted by the opposition coalition.
Meanwhile, Mark has warned members of the coalition to be committed to ADC, stressing there would be no room for anti-party activities.
