Nigeria, March 16 -- Gbenga Daniel, a former governor of Ogun State and chief strategist for the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign, has resigned from active and partisan politics.

Mr Daniel, a longtime chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, said in a letter to the party's chairman, Uche Secondus, that he abandoned politics after realising that he had reached the peak of his career.

The 62-year-old would now spend the rest of his retirement running his charity and political foundation, he said in the March 14 letter.

A career engineer with renown background in installation and maintenance of elevators, Mr Daniel joined the PDP in 2001 to run for governor in Ogun State. He defeated incumbent Olusegun Osoba in the 2003 general elec...