The governorship candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Gombe State, Khamisu Ahmed Mailantarki, has said his party is ready to wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023.
Speaking in an interview with newsmen in Gombe, Mailantarki said the NNPP had provided a better alternative for potential voters ahead of the 2023 polls as against the usual two-party structure in the state.
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He said, “I am here to serve and I assure the good people of Gombe State irrespective of religion, tribe or ethnicity that their interest will be better protected under my leadership.”
Mailantarki, a former member of the House of Representatives, said if elected as governor in 2023 he would transform the agricultural sector to make the state the hub of agribusiness.
Meanwhile, the National Women’s Leader of the NNPP, Dr Maryam Jummai Yasin, has urged Nigerian women to rise up and take their mandate, saying women were tired of being subjected to poverty and being relegated to the background.
Dr Yasin, who spoke yesterday at the party’s national workshop for women with the theme: “Mobilising Women for Effective Participation in the 2023 General Elections”, urged women to protect their votes.
She said it was important for women to participate actively in politics because they were the main victims of terrorism, insurgency, militancy, banditry, kidnapping, ritual killing and human trafficking.
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