By Ahmad Umar

All Progressive Congress (APC) Gubernatorial Aspirant in Gombe State, North-east of the country and former member House of Representatives, Khamisu Ahmed Mailantarki, has said that he will accept the outcome of the upcoming party’s primary in the state, if it is free and  fair

Speaking in an interview with Newsmen in Gombe, after his campaign tour across the state, Mailantarki said all the aspirants have held series of meeting with the party leadership and stakeholders over the party primaries in the state and  have been assured of a free, fair and transparent process

If that’s done, all will support whoever emerges  to wrest power from the ruling PDP government in the state.

“If the party leadership and stakeholders keep the promises and conduct free, fair, and transparent primaries with all honesty and without any external influence tailored towards anointing any candidate, as a loyal party man I will accept the result and support whosoever emerge for APC to establish a government in the state.”

He said that, he will be the best candidate that could  march any candidate from opposition, adding that he has all it takes to win the election if he is elected as the party’s candidate so that, the party will not repeat the mistake of the past.

Mailantarki urged the delegates to look at everybody’s records and ensure that whoever must emerge in APC must be a loyal and committed party member that is capable of taking the party to victory.

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By Ahmad Umar

An NGO, Search for Common Ground in collaboration with UN-Women has launched the Local Action Plan on promoting women’s engagement in peace and security in two local government areas of Gombe State, Nigeria’s North East Region.

The local government areas, are Kaltungo and Yamaltu/ Deba.

The State Project Coordinator of the organisation, Chorbe Joshua Gonlur who announced this in Gombe said the programme is European Union funded, working on the conducted validation on the data collected for reflection on context specific modules of the Local Government Areas, and the State.

The validation is aimed at deepening Engagement on Women on Peace, Security project before the launching in the two local government areas.

He spoke on the documents and commitments made on the implementation of the action plans by the LGA Chairmen with the assurance of supporting women’s actionable initiatives in the local government areas.

Mr. Gonlur added that Traditional councils have also reaffirmed their commitments in strengthening women in Peace and Security processes in their domains and hoped that such gesture would be extended to other local government areas in the state.

He further said that the organisation during the development of the document had engaged lead consultant, researchers and enumerators who facilitated the process of information generation and reflections, hence the need to validate the data collected by the respondents .

“The document will be used by the leaders to address issues faced with the communities and to further strengthen women in decision making processes in communities. The document is a bottom top approach which will help in facilitating issues in a non-adversarial ways and having the common ground approach in the implementation of UNSCR 1325.

He hoped that the document would further serve as a working tool for the Local Government Authority as sustainable measures to enable them own the process at the Local level.