National Chairman of the New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje on Tuesday resigned his position as Chairman of the Nigeria Railway Corporation Governing Board.
Conveyed through a Letter of Gratitude and Resignation of Appointment as Chairman, Nigeria Railway Corporation Governing Board addressed to Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, Baraje’s resigned to have the time to adequately manage the activities of nPDP and avoid any insinuation or plot to use the appointment of his NRC chairmanship to blackmail or embarrass him in future.
According to him, the struggle to emancipate and enthrone proper democracy in the polity is a task that must be won.
“I hasten to express my sincere gratitude to His Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, through your good office for the confidence he placed in my ability to have appointed me to such an exalted position as Chairman, Nigeria Railway Corporation,” Baraje wrote in the letter.
“His Excellency, Mr. President, will recall that this appointment came from his discretion in allotting some positions to our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). However, it is no longer news that there is an ongoing disagreement in principle between some top stakeholders of our party of which I am among on the one hand and the current leadership of the party on the other.
“This quagmire has upturned my belief in the present leadership of our great party and has consequently made my continued stay as Chairman, Nigeria Railway Corporation Governing Board uncomfortable.
“Realizing that the position of the Nigeria Railway Corporation chairmanship was allocated to the party and of which I am supposed to symbolize, I would appreciate if your good office could please convey to His Excellency, Mr. President, of my intention to relinquish this position with immediate effect because I can no longer represent the interest of the party whose leadership I no longer believe in”.
