Gbenga Daniel Defends Decision To Quit PDP

The director-general of the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign organisation for the 2019 general elections, Gbenga Daniel has defended his decision to quit the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Daniel had announced his decision to quit the PDP, explaining that he was quitting partisan politics for personal reasons.

In his resignation letter to the national chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus, Daniel said “My decision in this regard is entirely personal to me.”

The former governor of Ogun State said his supporters were also desiring he lead them to them to APC after he quit “active and partisan”.

However, Daniel said he “did not agree to lead them to APC.”

“I listened carefully to them and I permitted them to join any political party of their choice since I have become non partisan,” Daniel said on Sunday evening.

Reacting to “insults” that he had been receiving from critics after his resignation, Daniel said, “Even to voluntarily step back which ordinarily should be applauded, it’s more insult.

“I think something is fundamentally wrong with us as a people. When [a] politician fails to leave its complaint galore from the younger generation.”

His move away from politics, Daniel said, will allow him to devote more time to charity and resuscitate his non-partisan political leadership academy, which he established a few years ago.

Few days before the governorship poll Daniel threw his weight behind the candidate of the APC, Dapo Abiodun, which his party sought to dislodge at the centre.