Zainab Kure Emerges First Female PDP State Leader

The Niger chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has adopted Senator Zainab Kure, wife of late Governor Abdulkadir Kure, as its leader. Senator Kure becomes the first woman since the formation of the PDP to lead a state chapter of the party.

Her adoption was contained in a statement issued by Mr Suleiman Aliyu, the state PDP Publicity Secretary on Tuesday in Minna.

Aliyu said that the decision was taken during a stakeholders’ meeting in Minna, adding Kure had automatically replaced former Gov Babangida Aliyu, as the party leader in the state.

The PDP had repeatedly accused the former governor of anti-party activities, leading to crisis in the state. Babangida Aliyu had himself confessed how he worked against the party in the 2015 presidential elections on the claim that the presidential candidate in the person of President Goodluck Jonathan had usurped the opportunity of the north.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that Babangida Aliyu’s slide to irrelevance in the PDP started after he led the party as incumbent governor to lose the state to the All Progressives Congress, APC in the 2015 election when his hand chosen successor was defeated.

He also lost his bid at the same time to go to the Senate.

His replacement by Senator Zainab Kure as the PDP leader in the state came after her plank of candidates won party congresses and emerged officials of the party across different levels in the state. She had served as senator for two terms between 2007 and 2015.

Senator Kure had also in September replaced Aliyu on the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT), as North Central representative. (NAN)

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