The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Muritala Yakubu Ajaka, has resigned from the party.
The resignation letter is dated April 17, three days after the Kogi State governorship primary, in which he was a frontline contestant, alongside others.
His resignation followed weeks of speculations that he had defected to the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) with the promise to field him as its governorship candidate for the November 11 election in the State.
Ajaka thanked the National Working Committee for a healthy working relationship he had with the party.
Ajaka said: “I write to inform your good self and the National Working Committee of our great Party, the All Progressives Congress of my decision to resign my office as the Deputy National Publicity Secretary and also as member of the NWC.
“This gesture is a consequential act to the resignation of my membership, a notice of which I have already communicated in writing to the Chairman of APC, Ajaka Ward 1 in Igalamela/Odolu LGA of Kogi State.
“Kindly permit me to extol the exemplary brinkmanship, astuteness, sagacity and political dexterity with which Your Excellency, being supported by the current National Working Committee has successfully bonded the hitherto fragile fabrics of the Party; firmly enough to record the most eminent victories in the last general elections.
“Having proudly won the presidential election therefore, I have the utmost faith that the Party, under your able charge, will help the incoming administration to upgrade the standard of governance for the greater good of Nigerians.”