Ahead of Saturday Gubernatorial and State Assembly elections, the National Peace Committee (NPC) on Wednesday organized a one day peace dialogue conference for political stakeholders in Gombe state.
Speaking at the event, the head of the secretariat of the NPC and Director Kukah Center, Rev. Attah Barkindo, said they were in Gombe to preach peace ahead of the forthcoming elections.
While calling on Nigerians to come out and conduct themselves in a peaceful manner during the election, he said that the mandate of the peace committee is to facilitate peaceful election and peaceful transition.
Barkindo said, the case of 2015 is quite different with 2019 because in 2015 only two major political parties, APC and PDP were active but now are 90 registered political parties with 70 presidential candidates that contested in the just concluded election.
According to him, the reason of preaching peace in 2019 is very crucial than previous years.
He then advised the people…
