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ADVOCACY NIGERIA ORGANIZES STREET MATCH ON GENDER POLICY IN ZAMFARA

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Advocacy Nigeria Zamfara state head office has organized a sensitization match in Gusau aimed at creating awareness on the need to intensifying pressure on the government actors to get the National Gender Policy domesticated.

The street match which targeted stakeholders and public lasted for some hours as civil society actors as well the media took to the streets of Gusau sharing handbills which carries various inscriptions and messages targeting government actors and other people of great concern.

It was supported by MacArthur foundation in partnership with Women Right Advancement Protective Alternative (WRAPS).

The coordinator of the Advocacy Nigeria in Zamfara Mr. Rabiu Sambo said, the objective of the exercise is to ensure that the needed awareness on the significance of getting the National Policy on Gender domesticated especially considering its impact on gender mainstreaming in a volatile state like Zamfara.

He lamented that, though the policy has been passed at the Federal level since 2006, states like Zamfara are yet to get the policy domesticated considering how the people of the state attached value to womanhood.

He recalled that part of what the policy targeted is to convert all forms of violence against women and also ensure women inclusion in Political decision-making.

He expressed wonder why the there was no a single effort to get the policy reached the state house of assembly, talkless of getting it domesticated for public use.

He therefore called on the stakeholders, especially the ministry for women affairs, traditional rulers, state legislatures, women groups, media and indeed the Civil Society Organizations to take up and make sure that the right thing is done for the state.

He also thanked all those that participated in the match for finding out

time to lend their support to the exercise.

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FMR. ZAMFARA SPEAKER SCORES (229) TO DELIVERS POLING

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Former Speaker of Zamfara House of Assembly Sanusi Garba Rikiji of the APC has scored a total of (229) votes to defeat the PDP who polls (61) votes only.

His poling unit is Rumfar Galadima (013) in Gusau the capital city of Zamfara State.

As for the result of the state house of assembly in his poling units, APC scored a total of (232) to defeat the PDP who polls (51) votes.

Rikiji is currently the house of reps candidate for Gusau and Tsafe in the 2023 election, whose election was declared inclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

He is contesting the seat together with the serving members Kabiru Amadu Mai Palace, who is from the opposition PDP.

 

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CHAIR ZBIRS, WORKS COMMISSIONER, DELIVERS POLING UNITS

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The Chairman of Zamfara State Board of Internal Revenue Service, Ali Akilu Dama Bungudu has also delivered his poling unit.

His party the APC scored a total (173) to defeat the PDP who scored (111) votes.

Similar votes were also recorded for both political parties at the level of State assembly elections.

Similarly, Zamfara State Commissioner for Works Rabiu Garba Gusau has delivered his poling units with a wide margin to defeat the PDP.

APC scored (96) votes to defeat the opposition People’s Democratic Party, which scored (16) votes for both the Governorship election and state assembly for Gusau (1) at his poling unit.

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SHA’AYAU S. PAWA MAFARA SCORES (502) VOTES TO DEFEAT PDP WITH ZERO VOTE.

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A political ally of former Governor Yari Sha’ayau Yusuf S. Paws has defeated PDP in his Township Primary school poling unit in Talatar Marafa local government area of Zamfara State.

According to an official result sheet, the politician who is a member of All Progressives Congress (APC) scored (502) votes to defeat the PDP who scored (0) votes.

The politician has made history since 2015 by maintaining the only poling units which opposition party has never won a single vote during election.

He repeated the same history during the 2023 Presidential and national assembly elections conducted three weeks back, when PDP failed to score a single vote.

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