New Niger PDP Leadership Unfolds Agenda

• Says Congress Legal

By Laleye Dipo

The newly elected executive of the People’s Democratic Party PDP in Niger state on Monday unfolded its agenda for the repositioning of the party after 17 months of crisis, describing the Congress that threw up the new state leadership as very ” legal, constitutional, free and fair”.

The Congress according to the new chairman Mr Tanko Beji was also the “best and most transparent that has ever been organised by any political party in the political history of our state”.
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Beji who addressed the press for the first time since he was elected a week ago said part of the agenda of the new leadership was to decentralise leadership from the centre, adding that the “Reward system will be changed, those that have agreed to remain we will reward.

” We are going to engage in massive membership drive, the leadership of the party at all levels must key into the e-membership and manual registration exercise going on throughout the country”.

Beji who also said the plan of the new leadership includes reconciliation with those who may have felt aggrieved for one reason or the other” pointing out that: “we will reach out to them”.

“We will engage in reconciliation, it was PDP Vs PDP, we will not dissipate energy on crisis, we will set up a reconciliation committee that will go round to talk to those aggrieved”

“We are prepared, we are ready, we are coming with new hope, winning Niger state in 2023 is achieveable”.

The chairman promised to give the state PDP “purposeful leadership” and take the party back to the people”.

Beji said the PDP in the state “is not factionalized, there is nothing to point to a faction in this state, there is no factional state Secretariat, I am the only brand new authentic chairman in Niger state.”

On state and national security, Beji regretted that ” the entire security achitecture in the country has broken down, the economy is weak, education has collapsed at all levels.

“We feel pained that the security situation has degenerated to the level it is now, people are being kidnapped as if they are catching fouls” he said and therefore advised government to redouble it’s efforts to regain the confidence of the masses”

Beji specifically told the Niger state government to set the necessary machinery in motion for the rescue of the 136 girls of the Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School Tegina using the same architecture that got the Commissioner for Information Alhaji Mohammed Sani Idris released within three days.

All members of the newly elected executive council were present at the media briefing.