Those leaving our party are driven by self-interest – Adamawa PDP

The Adamawa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said those decamping from the party are doing so purely for personal reasons.

The Publicity Secretary of the party in the state, Dogo Victor, stressed in a news interview in Yola that whatever excuse defectors may cite could safely be disregarded, as such defectors, upon close observation, are leaving the party in pursuit of purely personal interests.

“There is nothing about the PDP that could be considered serious enough to cause defection,” Dogo told members of the Correspondents Chapel of the Adamawa State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), whom he visited in Yola.

Speaking against the background of the immediate past deputy governor of the state under the party, Chief Crowther Seth, who left the PDP in June this year, and the 2023 presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who defected more recently, Dogo insisted that their reasons were personal.

“Atiku left the party, but his son, Adamu Atiku, remains in the PDP and is a very prominent member of the government as Commissioner of Works,” Dogo said, emphasizing that Atiku left the PDP because he has a personal political interest to pursue.

Dogo, who became the state PDP Publicity Secretary earlier this month after a state congress conducted wholly by consensus, also said that the disagreements following the congress are nothing to worry about.

He explained that it is natural and common for seekers of office to take exception to a process that does not favor them, but the party has set up a reconciliation committee to resolve all differences.