Oby Ezekwesili, presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), has resigned from the party.
The Former Minister of Education disclosed this in a press conference organized in Abuja on Monday.
Okay Nigeria understands that Ezekwesili had returned ACPN membership card and all other party items.
Ezekwesili said she made this move because the party was more fixated on money than votes.
She also added that she withdrew from the race because of the desperation of the leadership of the party to get money from her foreign contacts.
She also said, she wasn’t surprised at the endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari by the party, just hours after she quit the presidential race.
Okay Nigeria had on Jan. 24, 2019 reported that ACPN endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid hours after Ezekwesili withdrawal from the presidential race.
In her words, “You all saw how they demonstrated their preferred brand of politics by endorsing the ruling APC in a classic somersault. Deceptive politics of transactions at its worst! God forbade that I should be in any way participate in such.
“Their actions last week did not surprise me one bit. My relationship with the ACPN became problematic once they faced the reality of my modest financial means that I had transparently disclosed to them from the beginning. Their mistake was that they harboured two wrong assumptions about me.
“First, they assumed that I was one of those who served in government and had a stash of looted public funds hidden somewhere to expend on the elections. When they realized that was not the case, they made a second wrong assumption by believing that I would be willing to go and obtain foreign cash to prosecute my campaign. “
