Former Deputy Minority Leader in the Nigerian Senate, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa has returned to her former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) barely a year after moving to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ita GiwaThursday evening announced her return to the PDP which she refered to as her original home.
In a statement made available on Thursday, the politician stated that in her over 30 years
in politics, she has not seen the kind of
confusion she met in APC inspite of the kind of
forthright President the party produced in 2015
in the person of Mohammadu Buhari and an intelligent Vice President but recent activities in
the APC is nothing but complete confusion.
“ I cannot understand why out of sheer
negligence party will not be able to present
candidates for elections in several key states
nationwide,” she said.
The politician also known as Mama Bakassi added that, “ I cannot understand how any party will have in its ranks popular and trusted leaders who can
muster tremendous goodwill for the party and yet treats them with disdain.”
According to her, the party has broken into factions from the ward to the national level which shows how incapable it is to organise itself and get ready to win an election.
She disclosed that for that reason, she would prefer to swim or sink with her original
home, the PDP.
“The experience of the supposed recent direct
primaries was also a taste of sour experience
where factional interests simply allocated figures
and manipulated same as votes after shutting
out other aspirants in the race,” she said.
She added that the fictionalisation affected her ward which and local government area where the party is grappling with the problem of proper resettlement of the people and there are
divisions in the party which shows it can never
make headway or win the PDP.
She however appealed to her supporters to join her as she returns to the PDP and ensure victory for the party at all levels.
