By Bode Olagoke
Abuja
One of the newly constituted Board of Trustee and one of the founding members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Tom Ikimi, has left the party.
Blueprint exclusively reported early this week that the party chieftain might defect during the week.
In a letter personally signed by him and addressed to the national chairman of APC yesterday in Abuja, Ikimi who drew the attention of the party to a statement he had issued giving the reasons he was leaving the opposition party, further confirmed his decision to withdraw his membership as from yesterday.
The letter said: “However kindly find forwarded to you herewith my statement released today bearing the title All Progressives Congress (APC) –My reflections and wish to particularly draw your attention to the last paragraph of the document stating the withdrawal of my membership from the party – APC.
“This is to further confirm my decision to withdraw my membership from the All Progressives Congress party from today.”
In the statement attached to the letter, Ikimi said he was satisfied that he had played an important role in ensuring the emergence of an alternative platform to the party in power in the country.
The politician did not however categorical about the party to join next.
He said: “I am at this stage of currently re-examining the two dominant political parties in our country, which are the APC and the PDP, in both of which I have had close working knowledge. I have not ignore the other political parties but in the light of foregoing I must now search to really ascertain where indeed my true political friends exist.”
