Zenith Labour Party (ZLP): The Beautiful Bride 2023
By Abimiku Monday
One may wonder how ZLP became 2nd main opposition party in Nasarawa state. Pose here let me take you through the journey so far. Before the emergency of ZLP in Nasarawa State, it has been PDP and others until Umar Tanko Almakura introduced the defunct CPC which came on the Eve of elections and defeated the then ruling party (PDP). Under CPC Tanko emerged as Governor of the state and it later metamorphose into APC.
At that time APC and PDP were considered the major parties in the state, not until ZLP came into the limelight in 2018 and swiftly through its dogged approach of mobilizing the youths, women and people with disabilities into the party, eventually resulted in winning the seat of Doma-North in the Nasarawa State Assembly. The landslide victory Puts ZLP’s 2nd main opposition after PDP above other parties existing in the state, some of who decamped immediately after the general election knowing that they were incapacitated to move on.
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The supporters of ZLP have rapidly increased across the 13 Local Government Areas of Nasarawa State. However, thanks to internal wrangling in the APC and PDP and the Umar Aliyu-Doma’s factor which has softened the ground for the party as well as the tireless personality of the state chairman who has been accelerating continuously.
People outside the state may find it hard to understand how the Zenith Labour Party has within this period occupied such an envious position in the state index of political parties. How it’s set to upstage the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to become the main party in the state. But for many Nasarawa residents, it is par for the course.
The rank of the ZLP in the state has continued to swell as aggrieved politicians defect from both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the PDP; that can be seen in some places including the Ekye development area and the entire Doma LGA and is spreading across to Awe, Keana, Obi, Lafia, Nasarawa Eggon, Akwanga, Wamba, Kokona, Keffi, Nasarawa, Toto and Karu.
“We are the beautiful bride in the Nasarawa State as it is” and we’re expanding to all villages beyond voting points or units as the best option for Nasarawa state.
And we’re open to receiving more aspirants and followers who were I’ll-treated by APC and PDP and From all other political parties in the state, come one come all… don’t wink at the dark corners liberate yourself.
Comrade Abimiku Monday is the Zonal Chairman of ZLP. He Writes From the Zonal Office In Nasarawa State