From Austine Tule, Makurdi
The Zonal National Vice Chairman of the Aftican Democratic Congress ( ADC), for North Central Dr. Peter Edeh , has urged the Benue state governor Samuel Ortom to cease hostilities with the federal government to enable him concentrate on fixing the state which he noted was in a bad shape.
He equally called on the governor to as a matter of urgency clear salary arrears been owed civil servants in the state as well as pensions.
Addressing party faithful shortly the inauguration if its state interim Exco for Benue State in Makurdi, the Chairman said though the Governor’s cries were genuine as a leader of his people, the loudness had been heard and hence the imperativeness for him to shift his attention to issues bedevilling the state at the moment.
He described the ADC as a true democratic party for the future generation adding that the two dominant political parties ( APC and PDP), have failed the nation and hence the need for the people to jettison them and take a central position in the ADC.
He informed that the party was been driven by prominent Nigerians but who would rather want to act behind the scene informing further that at the appropriate time, such individuals will unvail themselves to Nigerians.
He urged the youths to take advantage of the development by joining its ranks at an early stage so they can also be part of the building process.
The charged the newly inaugurated Exco members to reposition the party and place it on the path of winning more elective positions during the 2023 general elections in the state, warning that on no account they allow the party to be hijacked by agents of the two other political parties as was experienced during the last general elections.
He called on women in the state to be more proactive by lending their voices to issues of insecurity been witnessed in the state even it it meant protesting naked as mothers emphasising that such will go a long way in drawing even international attention to the carnage expressing dismay that their continued silence was not in the interest of their children who were been massacred on a daily basis by the marauding Fulani herdsmen.
In his acceptance speech, newly inaugurated state chairman of the party Honourable Demian Jiraji, thanked the Congress for the confidence reposed in them to steer the affairs of the party in the next three months.
He assured that his team was poised towards embarking on an aggressive membership drive as well as provide it direction in the state within the time frame of its mandate saying the ADC will be a party to beat by 2023.
