NIGER STATE APC CHAIRMAN RESIGNS
By Safiya Abdulrahim Dabban
The Chairman, Niger State chapter of All Progressives Congress APC, Haliru Zakari Jikantoro has voluntarily resigned from his position.
Jikantoro announced his resignation immediately after the state executive and other stakeholders meeting held at the party secretariat in Minna, saying that the decision to quit was based on positive reason.
He declared that it was based on personal conviction after wide consultations for the betterment of the APC in Niger state, assuring that he will continue to give his best to the party at any given time.
The immediate past APC chairman, explained to Africa247 that he has never had issues with the party executives or State Working Committee in the state, stressing that it would also add value to the party in the state.
The Zonal chairman from Zone C, Alhaji Aminu Bobbi has been nominated as the Acting Chairman of the party in the state, who stated that he will reposition the party for better before a special congress to usher in a substantive Chairman.
On his remarks Special Adviser to the Niger state Governor on political and Strategy, Alhaji Mohammad Nma Kolo said there is no friction in the party, noting that Jikantoro announced his decision during a meeting yesterday with the governor, SSG, Speaker and himself who insisted despite persuasion before Governor Mohammed Umar Bago accepted his resignation.
Alh Nma Kolo explained that the party is given ways to groom younger ones to take charge of the state APC hence a generational shift just as it’s expected to see an improvement in all spheres of the party because the current chairman is young, cool hearted, with listening ears and down to earth to pilot the affairs of the party to greater height.