Balarabe Musa resigns as PRP chair, retains membership

National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has informed party members that he will resign his position for a younger person due to his failing health.
The outgoing chairman, who made this known when he declared open the 54th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting yesterday, however, said he “will always remain in PRP.” In his valedictory speech, Musa said “due to declining energy and failing health, it has become necessary for me to vacate the seat for younger and fresher blood.
My successor will not just be a young man in age but someone who is robustly and combatively committed to all the ideals that our party, the PRP, has always stood for.” He promised to always be available for party assignments within the limits of his “fading energy and failing health.” The former Kaduna state governor thanked party men for all the support they had given to him over the years, and pleaded with them to “render the same support to my successor,” stressing that “there is work to be done and all hands must be on deck.” Musa told the incoming NEC members that the national secretariat of the party had proposed uniform guidelines for “the 2018-2019 primaries and determining candidates at all levels of the party structure.” He said the party took ‘this measure because of the limited time frame within which PRP must conclude its primaries on or before October 7, 2018, going by INEC time-table.” Musa, however, warned that “these guidelines are specific to the impending 2019 elections only and may be modified as deemed fit for other subsequent elections.
Under our party’s constitution, the NEC is empowered by Article 5, Section F, to issue such periodic guidelines.” He advised NEC to give state organs of the party, whether duly elected or protem, specific deadlines for the conduct of the primaries.