Chief Dele Momodu, has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a “cadaver room,” that has since been hijacked by agents of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
In an interview with Channels TV on September 8, the former PDP chieftain explained that he defected to the African Democratic Congress (ADC), because he could no longer, in good conscience, remain in a party he believed had lost its soul.
“It’s a coalition of different political parties, and I resigned from PDP because I saw that we had reached a kind of call to sack, so I joined ADC.
We could see that PDP has been completely hijacked by agents of the ruling party who insist on staying in PDP while working for the APC. It’s a kind of anomaly, but that is fine. If I don’t agree with my party, the honourable thing to do is to resign, and that’s what I did.”
Momodu opined that his decision was not new to his political character, noting that he has always chosen to leave rather than compromise on principle.
He recounted his earlier foray into politics when he contested the 2011 presidential election on the platform of the National Conscience Party (NCP), after resigning from the Labour Party which, at the time, showed no interest in fielding a presidential candidate.
“Anyone who knows me and remembers my trajectory will remember that I contested the presidency in 2011 on the platform of the National Conscience Party. I came to the National Conscience Party from the Labour Party when I discovered that the Labour Party was not interested in contesting the presidency then.
“I resigned honourably, and then I moved to the National Conscience Party. Of course, I got about 26,000 votes nationwide, and I feel privileged to have been a presidential candidate in Africa’s biggest country, Nigeria. So the lesson I learnt from it is that it will be difficult for a strange political party to win a presidential election,” he said
