The Youth Wing of the All Progressives Congress has dumped the Party for the ruling People’s Democratic Party citing several reasons including absence of internal democratic processes and the hijacking of party structures by former PDP governors.
National coordinator of APC-Youth Frontier, Usman Okai Austin said at a conference in Abuja that the inability of the party to administer internal justice and follow international best practices in democratic tenets had caused disaffection amongst the youth.
Austin said, “If APC is left unchecked, the party will visit a reign of injustice on the nation.
“When the APC autocratically forced decamping PDP governors to come from nowhere and hijack the party built by others, is this injustice or the practice of internal democracy?” Austin queried.
“The shocker to us came when the leadership of the APC at national level, instead of cancelling and calling for fresh and fair play in membership registration, went ahead to accept the fraud as the registration.
“This action alone calls for rethink and as youths that believe in justice, fairness and equity, we consider it frivolous, unjust and undemocratic to fold our hands and close our eyes to this abnormality.
“In light of all these anomalies mentioned, we have no choice but to abandon this sinking ship. We have come to the conclusion that APC is more of a paper tiger and rely heavily on dishing out threats, intimidation and falsehood rather than come up with so- lutions that would ameliorate the plight of Nigerians.
“We have resolved to henceforth change our name from APC Youth Frontier to PDP Youth Frontier and pledge to work harmoniously under the supervision of PDP national youth leader and their states youth leaders and dedicate ourselves to all the activities of PDP from now onward,” Austin stated.