Persistent crises, unresolved conflicts force me to leave PDP – Gershom Bassey

Former governorship aspirant successful Cross River State, Senator Gershom Bassey, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), citing persistent interior crises, heavy divisions and unresolved conflicts wrong the party.

Bassey, who represented Cross River South Senatorial District successful the 8th and 9th Senate, said helium took the determination “with a dense heart,” noting that caller developments successful the enactment had made it hard for him to stay hopeful astir its future.

In a resignation missive dated March 12, 2026, and addressed to the PDP enactment successful Ward 9, Calabar South Local Government Area, the erstwhile legislator formally announced his exit from the party.

He said the continued divided wrong the party’s structures had weakened its unity and eroded the values connected which it was founded.

“The astir caller situation has unluckily made it wide that the enactment is drifting further distant from the ideals that erstwhile bound america together,” helium stated.

Bassey besides lamented what helium described arsenic the unwillingness of enactment elders and leaders to marque genuine efforts to reconstruct discipline, unity and imaginativeness wrong the PDP.

“What makes this...