By Abdulsalam Muhammad

KANO – Kano State PDP Frontiers has described the resignation of former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Umar Na’Abba from the party as a non-issue saying the politician “was of no value aside the relics of him serving an office”.

A statement circulated among Reporters in Kano and signed by the Coordinator of the Group, Ahmed Sani Kabara, said the party and its stalwarts will not miss the former speaker as “his presence is of no impact, so would his absence be”.

The Kano PDP Frontiers in the statement stated “Na’abba’s purported resignation from our great party, the PDP is nothing short of publicity stunt and an attempt to relaunch himself having lost public reckoning.”

The statement reads “as far as we are concerned, and this is open secret for anyone to verify, Ghali Na’abba has never been of any use to PDP, rather it is the party that has done everything to him; lifting him from a nobody to national fame. It therefore amounts to betrayal and biting the hands that feed him for him to now dump the party.”

The signed statement futher stated “the former Speaker is known both in the local chapter of the party and the national level to exhibit traits that are self-centred and invariably unhealthy for a democratic setting. Someone who always wants to lord himself over people should have himself to blame when the table is turned against him.”

According to the group, the former Speaker lack both “local grip and national gravitas” as to be missed by the party at all levels.

The group recalled that Na’abba “woefully lost his re-election bid to the House of Representatives in 2003 despite occupying the number 4 seat of the House Speaker. And afterwards, he is not known to have promoted any candidate at any level that eventually succeed. When he vied for the Senate ticket in 2011, he could not garner any appreciable votes.

“Reading through Na’abba’s so-called letter of resignation one comes across someone who is gone too deep in the self-destruct path of arrogance and self-indulgence and cannot afford to be a follower despite being a paper-weight politician,” the group adds.

The Coordinator of the Kano PDP Frontiers therefore assured President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of the PDP to not be worried about the decision of the former Speaker “as big name is not the same thing as big influence”.