Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, and National Chairman of Social Democratic Party, SDP, Chief Olu Falae, on Friday, quit active politics and stepped down as the party’s national chairman.
Falae says he is quitting politics on his health ground and the the roiling crisis that has torn the SDP.
Things may have irredeemably fallen apart for the SDP which imploded this week as a result of its inability to reconcile its two presidential gladiators-Prof. Jerry Gana, a former Minister of Information, and Mr. Donald Duke, a former governor of Cross Rivers State.
There has been a legal tussle over who, between the duo, is the authentic presidential flag bearer of the party with neither man ready to step down for the other.
The disquiet within the party reached a boiling point on Thursday as its national executive committee rose from an emergency meeting with a resolution to adopt the presidential standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, President Muhammadu Buhari, as its presidential candidate for the February 16 presidential vote.