Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Abdulmumin Abdulsalami, says he left the party to protect his peace of mind.
Abdulsalami made this known on Thursday during an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time,’ noting that the party showed him premeditated malice.
He said his honest work for the party started clashing with the interests of a few powerful officers who control things in the party, adding that he decided to walk away instead of staying to keep complaining about injustice.
“I left the NDC for my peace of mind. I was made the deputy national publicity secretary and spokesman of the party, and people with vested interests probably thought I had futuristic leadership interests, and it came with premeditated malice towards me.
“I was removed from the National Working Committee, NWC, and replaced with people whom I received upon their defection to the party. The animosity the national secretary unleashed on me became obvious and intense. He weaponised bureaucracy to stifle, intimidate, and humiliate me,” Abdulsalami said.
Abdulsalami said he would rather go back home than remain in a party where he was being pushed aside on purpose.
Abdulsalami listed the offices he held in the party, saying that he started as the Protem Chairman in Kogi State and later became the Deputy National Publicity Secretary and pioneer spokesman of the NDC.
His resignation came a few hours after another top member of the Peter Obi camp, Yunusa Tanko, left the NDC for the Social Democratic Party, SDP, where he was unveiled as the National Coordinator of the Presidential Campaign Council of Prince Adewole Adebayo.
The two departures on the same day have raised fresh questions about the internal peace of the NDC as the party prepares for the 2027 general election.