By Daniel Abia / Snr Correspondent Port Harcourt
The former national youth leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Miriki Ebikibina, has explained what led to his recent dumping a party he toiled to establish to join the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Ebikibina explained that though he had spent a greater part of his political career serving the opposition parties since the advent of the present democracy in Nigeria, it was time to join the mainstream party, PDP, to build a “virile and united” country irrespective of the nation’s cultural, political and religious diversities.
Ebikibina spoke with Daily Independent exclusively in Benin City, Edo State capital last Saturday at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium during the PDP South-South Unity Rally. He said after a careful observation, “I have come to the stark reality that PDP has provided a steady, progressive and tested governance for Nigerians.
“I have been in the opposition party in all my political life. I have never been a card carrying member of the ruling PDP. I started as the Bayelsa State secretary of the United Nigeria Peoples Party, UNPP, state secretary, Action Congress, AC, state chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, National Youth Leader ACN, interim National Youth Leader, APC and lately National Ex-officio member, APC in South-South.
“With the above profile, I think I am politically experienced enough to know that it is rather important to join a party that has an agenda of building a united Nigeria than being at where some privileged people will lay claim to the ownership of a political party.
“Nigeria is bigger than one individual person. I have seen in PDP that no one individual person can claim the ownership of the party. This is the difference I have seen between the ruling party and the others including my former party, APC”, He said.
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