Baraje resigns as NRC Board chairman

The National Chairman of the New Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, on Tuesday resigned his position as the Chairman, Nigeria Railway Corporation Governing Board, to give him room and time to manage the nPDP adequately.
The resignation was also to avoid any insinuation or plot to use the appointment to blackmail or embarrass him in the future.
According to Baraje, the struggle to emancipate and enthrone proper democracy in Nigeria is a fight that must be won.
Baraje’s decision was conveyed through a “LETTER OF GRATITUDE AND RESIGNATION OF APPOINTMENT AS CHAIRMAN, NIGERIA RAILWAY CORPORATION GOVERNING BOARD”, addressed to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim.
The letter, personally signed by Alhaji Baraje, reads: “I hasten to express my sincere gratitude to His Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, through your good office for the confidence he placed in my ability to have appointed me to such an exalted position as Chairman, Nigeria Railway Corporation.
“His Excellency, Mr. President, will recall that this appointment came from his discretion in allotting some positions to our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). However, it is no longer news that there is an ongoing disagreement in principle between some top stakeholders of our party of which I am among on the one hand and the current leadership of the party on the other. This quagmire has upturned my belief in the present leadership of our great party and has consequently made my continued stay as the Chairman, Nigeria Railway Corporation Governing Board uncomfortable.
“Realizing that the position of the Nigeria Railway Corporation Chairmanship was allocated to the party and of which I am supposed to symbolize, I would appreciate if your good office could please convey to His Excellency, Mr. President, of my intention to relinquish this position with immediate effect because I can no longer represent the interest of the party whose leadership I no longer believe in.”