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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue State has reacted to the resignation of former Governor Gabriel Suswam from the party.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Publicity Secretary for the Benue PDP, Tim Nyor, said Suswam left the party a long time ago.
He dismissed Suswam’s resignation letter, insisting that he had already distanced himself from the party.
“The purported resignation of Senator Suswam is coming several months after he had left the PDP and repeatedly aligned himself with a political coalition outside the party,” Nyor said.
He added, “This alignment was neither subtle nor speculative. He attended multiple meetings of the coalition, participated in its public unveiling in Benue State, and even donated personal property for use as its secretariat, after evicting the PDP from the same premises. In light of these overt actions, it raises a fundamental question as to why Senator Suswam had to address his ‘resignation letter’ to the PDP at this stage rather than to the political platform he had clearly embraced long before now.”
Citing section 8 of the PDP Constitution, Nyor noted that any member who fails to pay membership subscription for 12 consecutive months automatically ceases to be a member.
“Senator Suswam had long fallen within this category and was, accordingly, expelled from the PDP during his active association with the African Democratic Congress. By implication, one cannot resign from a party of which one is no longer a member,” he said.
Responding to Suswam’s claims that internal crises prompted his resignation, the PDP argued that many of the challenges cited were largely precipitated by the former governor himself.
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