Deji Elumoye in Abuja
Senate President Bukola Saraki Tuesday
formally resigned from the All Progressive Congress, APC, saying he was
forced out of the party by fifth columnists.
Saraki in a 20-paragraph statement he
personally signed in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, to announce his
defection from APC to PDP accused some APC leaders of frustrating him
out of the party.
According to him, some national leaders
of APC who were opposed to resolving the crisis within the party through
dialogue served as fifth columnists which led to his leaving the party
eventually.
His words, “there are some people in the
party leadership hierarchy, who did not think dialogue was the way
forward and therefore chose to play the fifth columnists. These
individuals went to work and ensured that they scuttled the great
efforts and the good intentions of other leaders of the party. Perhaps,
had these divisive forces not thrown the cogs in the wheel at the last
minutes, and in a manner that made it impossible to sustain any trust in
the process, the story today would have been different.”
Saraki said it took him a long time to quit the party adding that “if
anything at all, I have tarried for so long and did all that was
humanly possible, even in the face of great provocation, ridicule and
flagrant persecution, to give opportunity for peace, reconciliation and
harmonious existence.
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