BREAKING: Retirement fever hits PDP, as Gbenga Daniel quits partisan, active politics
The Director-General of Atiku Abubakar’s campaign organisation during the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primary election, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has retired from partisan politics.
Daniel, also a former Governor of Ogun State, said this in a letter he sent to the PDP leadership on Thursday.
The reason for his retirement, he said, were “personal”.
“This is to inform you of my intention to resign from active and partisan politics with effect from today, the 14th day of March 2019,” Daniel said in the letter, a copy of which The Guardian saw on Saturday.
“My decision in this regard is entirely personal to me.”
His move away from politics, Daniel said, will allow him to devote more time to charity and resuscitate his non-partisan political leadership academy, which he established a few years ago.
This by Daniel has been described as beginning of more retirement among many PDP politicians especially those that have names to protect like the former Ogun governor.
