Former Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Usani Usani, has defined that he left the nationwide ruling occasion, All Progressives Congress, APC, as a result of it didn’t maintain to its ideas and guarantees to the individuals.
He mentioned that, as a person of strict ideas, he couldn’t have continued with the occasion.
He spoke in Calabar, the place he was launched because the Nationwide Vice Chairman of the coalition occasion, the African Democratic Congress, ADC, for the South-South, after addressing a coalition of politicians from totally different events.
He mentioned his conscience didn’t enable him to persist in APC any additional as a result of, based on him, the occasion had constantly deviated from its beliefs and had did not implement its guarantees to the individuals.
He advised supporters that he left APC as a result of “constriction of democratic area within the state which annoyed his governorship aspiration”.
Usani left his place as Minister of Niger Delta Affairs on 29 Might 2019 and remained inactive in occasion politics till he formally joined the PRP in Might 2022 to pursue his gubernatorial ambition.
Usani, who by no means agreed with former Governor Imoke and had even contested towards him, mentioned he needed to reconcile his variations with the chief of ADC within the state as a result of he had since exhausted all grievances by means of the related channels.
“The grievances have been by no means private however purely political. And for me, as soon as I exhaust all official channels of expressing political variations, I overlook about any hurts.
“So when His Excellency, the previous governor, our chief, known as me on telephone in regards to the ADC, we spoke as a result of I’ve plenty of respect for him,” Usani mentioned.
