Kennedy Peretei, the Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, has announced his resignation from the party.
Peretei made his decision public via a statement he issued in Akure, the state capital.
In the statement titled, ‘I Quit As The PDP In Ondo State Leaves The Intensive-Care Unit For The Morgue,’ the politician revealed that those who claim to be the leaders of the party have no intention to win elections now or in the future.
He said, “It is difficult to work with people whose interests are only themselves and how they can use the party to trade every election year.
“I wish to inform you about my decision to quit the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as those who claim to be in the leadership of the party have no intention to win any elections, now or in the future.
“It is difficult to work with people whose interests are only themselves and how they can use the party to trade every election year.”
He explained that he has made various contributions to the party at every opportunity, lamenting that the leaders of the party have brought it down.
“I was privileged to serve as the State Financial Secretary of the PDP in its infancy (1999-2003) and served again as State Publicity Secretary, 2020 to date. I contributed my quota at every level.
“But the same people who have held the party hostage, making it impossible to win elections in the last three election cycles have tightened their grip on a party that laid prostrate at the Intensive Care Unit. The PDP in Ondo State is now on its way to the morgue,” he said.
“For those who depend on election funds and party patronage to run their families, I admonish them to seek second addresses so that they can live more meaningful lives than that of political bandits, Almajaris or just ‘Yes’ men.” he concluded.
PDP Responds
In response, the Ondo State PDP acknowledged Peretei’s right to exit the party but dismissed his criticisms as unfounded and exaggerated.
The party, however, described Peretei’s allegations as “vulgar” and a “desecration of PDP”.
The party’s Director of Media and Publicity PDP in Ondo, Leye Igbabo, wondered “how an unrealised personal ambition of an individual could have suddenly driven a whole organisation to an intensive care unit from where it is allegedly being taken to the morgue”.
Igbabo said, “The party finds it extremely amusing that Mr Kennedy Perertei who knew that an organisation was on its way to the morgue, could mindlessly seek and recklessly scheme to take the chairmanship position of such a ‘dead’ party!
“We therefore believe that Mr Kennedy Peretei may have slumped into the state of hallucination by saying a lively Party is on its way to the morgue when he actually meant to say that his chairmanship ambition has been taken to the morgue!
“Let it be known that our Party, the Peoples Democratic Party is alive and bouncing very well in Ondo State and the reason that everyone is jostling for its headship.”
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