By Luminous Jannamike
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Thursday unveiled a nationwide youth and women mobilisation drive, projecting that the new structures could help the opposition party build a voter support base of at least 10 million votes ahead of future elections.
The initiative is part of the party’s efforts to rebuild its grassroots base, attract more young people into politics and strengthen its electoral reach across the country.
At the inauguration of the PDP National Youth Leadership Consultative Forum for the Survival of Democracy in Nigeria and the PDP Female Youth Wing in Abuja, the PDP National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, urged young women to embrace active political participation and ignore claims of division within the party.
“Do not see this gathering as a jamboree. Those days of attending events just to collect T-shirts and socialize are gone. Today, we are focused on purpose and results,” he said.
