Rivers ACN leader, Sekibo, dumps party

[Mirror]

Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Rivers State and the party's governorship candidate in the 2011 governorship election, Dr Abiye Sekibo, has made good his threat to rejoin the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as he has resigned his membership of the party yesterday.

Sekibo in his resignation letter, dated Wednesday, June 5, 2013 and addressed to the National Chairman of the party, Chief Adebisi Akande, said his resignation is based on personal reasons.

"I wish all my friends and colleagues who are still in the party well," Sekibo said.

The Rivers' ACN leader and the party's National Treasurer, Kenneth Kobani, has in a press release on Wednesday criticised the party's national leader and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, over his meeting with Governor Rotimi Amechi without recourse to the state executive members.

Tinubu was also accused of setting up a two-man committee to meet with the national officers of the party over their varying positions on the romance with the Rivers State governor.

The party, in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Jerry Needam, has said a two-man committee comprising; Dr Abiye Sekibo and Kenneth Kobani, national treasurer, who hails from the state has been mandated to communicate its stands to the national party leader.

The committee's stand centered on the unilateral resolve by the ACN national leaders to identify with and work in the interest of Governor Amaechi who it alleged 'is entrapped in an intractable Peoples Democratic party, PDP, crisis that tends to consign him into political irrelevance.'

The party also made some allegations against the state governor, who it said took many anti-democratic actions against its members in the past.

"The state chapter of the party is aggrieved that Amaechi, who has left no stone unturned in marginalising the opposition parties in the state, notably the ACN and unleashed all manner of persecutions against the party and its members, including its state leader, Dr Abiye Sekibo, during and after the April 26, 2011 general elections could easily warm himself into the party without the knowledge of the state chapter of the party."

National Mirror

[Folami David]

So many people are dumping CAN right now, I don't know the reason for it but I believe there must be a concrete reason to explain it.