Ahead of the 2023 general election, Mr. Ray Ugba Morphy, former special adviser to one-time National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, has dumped the party.
The APC chieftain was also a member of the APC Presidential Council in 2019, a member of APC National Campaign Councils to many states and a pioneer member of ‘The Buhari Organisation.’
Mr. Morphy, announced his resignation from APC in a statement he released to newsmen on Sunday, disclosing that after his intellectual, material and financial contributions to APC, he was leaving the ruling party to avoid defending what he knew to be a lie, and the “comedy of gaffes the APC is trying to sell to Nigerians.”
He said, he has realised after much effort that public good is the last thing on the mind of the leadership of the APC whether in government or out of it.
Morphy’s statement reads: “I am not sorry (for leaving). I have lost many friends because they expected me to live a lie. They expected that I would condemn the APC misrule in private and hail the party in public. I do not know how to speak with a forked tongue.
“I am not sorry that I left the APC where I had made intellectual, material and financial contributions, all in a bid to help secure better governance. I realised after much effort that public good is the last thing on the mind of the leadership of the APC whether in government or out of it. Talking about public good to the APC is like talking to a stone. So I took a walk.
“I am not sorry that I did what my conscience bids me to do. I cannot support a ticket that does not take into cognisance the diversity of our country.
“I am not sorry that I happen to believe that this country needs better, indeed deserves better than the comedy of gaffes that the APC is trying to sell to Nigerians in order to further impoverish and already traumatised and despondent citizenry.
“I am not sorry because I am a seeker of what is right and true. This is what we do. We stand with the truth and part ways with those who prefer lies. We stand with the public and part ways with those who see nothing wrong with the mass sufferings of the citizenry.
“I am not sorry that I stand for what is good for our nation.”
It is not immediately known which party he is defecting to, or whether or not he is leaving party politics generally.