By Dapo Akinrefon

A FORMER member of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Kehinde, has thrown his weight behind those clamouring for the resignation of the embattled national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu.

In a statement entitled “Mu’azu and the moral burden”, the former legislator said the resignation should not be limited to the National Working Committee but to the state, local government and  ward levels.

The former lawmaker argued that in a saner climse, this call would have been unnecessary as party leaders were usually the concomitant effect of lost elections.

‘’But it is only in Nigeria, that a failed teacher would still want to teach his pupils, despite poor outings in examinations,” he said.

Citing the recent resignation of the Labour Party leader in the United Kingdom, following its defeat at the polls, Kehinde said the fortune of the PDP now was at its low ebb.

Kehinde, who represented Ayedire/Iwo/Ola-Oluwa Federal Constituency of Osun State between 1999 and 2003 in the House of Representatives, said:   “The party has lost the battle but has equally, also won the war to ensure the peaceful co-existence of Nigerians and to confound some leaders who had believed that the Nigerian election would be a do or die battle and that Nigeria, if not dis-membered as a nation, would follow the path of Côte d’Ivoire.”

Stressing the need for the embattled PDP chairman to relinquish his position, he said Mu’azu’s exit would help reposition the PDP as an opposition party.

Kehinde said:   “There is, therefore, the need to properly prepare the PDP for its self-inflicted role of an opposition party and this can only be achieved if the PDP is properly re jigged,  re-organized, rejuvenated and rebuilt, otherwise, it would be a very heavy moral burden on the entire party leadership to still hold on unjustifiably to power, as if nothing has happened.’’