Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State, Charles Ugwuh, has announced his resignation from the party effective from May 22, 2024.
In a letter dated April 22, 2024 and addressed to the party’s national chairman, Umar Damagum, Ugwuh said his reason for quitting was based on the “equal commitment of some high profile leaders of the party to the advancement of impunity and subversion of popular will, and opposition to due process.”
Ugwuh said that when he accepted his election in August 2020, it was in response to appeals to revive the party and “restore hope to a despondent membership, traumatized by the judicial overthrow on 14th January 2020 of a legitimately constituted PDP government in Imo State.”
Writing further, the Imo PDP chairman said, “A most recent display of that internal opposition and sabotage was the malicious exclusion of my name from the list of attendees at the NEC meeting held in Abuja on April 18, 2024, acting on a spurious and frivolous court injunction obtained by a faceless petitioner.
“The procurement of that court injunction was consistent with a pattern of clandestine agenda being furthered through proxies by some high profile leaders of the party, hell-bent on frustrating and discrediting the SWC, and destabilizing the party in the process.”
Ugwuh said he was grateful for the opportunity to serve the party he co-founded in 1998.
This comes hours after a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha, resigned from the party, citing similar reasons.
Aside the state chairman, other top members that have resigned from the PDP in Imo include the immediate past deputy governor, Gerald Irona; former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology Owerri and one-time Education Commissioner, Prof Jude Njoku.
Others are former lawmaker, Ikenga Mayor Eze; former Chief of Staff, Vin Udokwu; PDP State Youth Leader, Evang Anozie Udenwa; Ikeduru State House of Assembly candidate, Sonny-Unachukwu John; and Isiala Mbano State Assembly candidate, Pius Omah.
