Lagos ex-guber candidate, Doherty resigns from PDP

Former Lagos State governorship campaigner of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Funso Doherty, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, attributing his determination to the party’s prolonged interior crisis.

Doherty, who joined the PDP successful 2024, made his resignation nationalist successful a missive shared connected his X grip connected Saturday.

Explaining his decision, helium pointed to caller developments wrong the party, peculiarly a tribunal ruling that nullified its 2025 convention, further deepening divisions among enactment stakeholders.

He revealed that anterior to the judgment, helium had written to the President of the Court of Appeal, urging a punctual solution of aggregate ineligible disputes involving the party, citing their imaginable interaction connected Nigeria’s electoral process.

According to him, the eventual ruling, which invalidated the normal and efficaciously shifted power of the party’s enactment to a faction, marked a decisive moment.

Doherty criticised the outcome, arguing that it indirectly favoured interests aligned with the re-election of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, which helium accused of presiding implicit worsening poverty, insecurity, and rising surviving costs.

“I volition not beryllium a enactment to sustaining this tragic travesty. The radical of Lagos State, galore of whom person waited acold excessively agelong for meaningful betterment successful their day-to-day lives from the actions of their gov...