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Published: 06 September 2025
The Northern Regional Peace Council(NRPC) is calling on all stakeholders including Political Parties and residents of Tamale Central to embrace peace and conduct themselves peacefully before, during and after the forth coming by-elections.
The NRPC underscores the significance of the elections allowing the citizens to exercise their constitutional rights and participate in shaping the future of communities but not engage in the acts of violence.
This follows a peace dialogue held on Thursday, 4th September 2025 with the Aspirants in the upcoming Tamale Central NDC’s Parliamentary Primaries following the tragic passing of the incumbent MP, Dr. Murtala Mohammed Ibrahim.
The meeting was aimed at shaping the campaign messages and slogans of Aspirants, ensuring peaceful contest among contenders at the end of the exercise, devoid of rancour, violence among other distasteful acts.
Leading the peace dialogue were members of the Northern Regional Peace Council, such as Alhaji Mohammed Awal Alhassan, Mr. Nuhu Abukari, Acting Executive Secretary-NRPC, Hajia Sahadatu, and Sheikh Hussein Jarijaa. among others.
Also at the round table for the peace dialogue were some of the Aspirants, which included, Lawyer, Sadat Haruna, Muleika Salisu, Mariama Naama Salifu and Hajia Shamima Yakubu. Depicting that all the female aspirants in the contest responded to the call by the Peace Council.
While he could not make it to the meeting, Hon. Hanan Gundado was represented by his Special Aide, Abdul Wahab. Meanwhile, some of the Aspirants could not make it to the meeting as promised.
The Aspirants who took time out of their busy schedule to honor the invitation by the Peace Council, committed themselves to the peace process, pledging to do everything at their disposal to ensure peace.
Addressing the Aspirants On behalf of the Northern Regional Peace Council, Alhaj Mohammed Awal Alhassan, underscores the essence of ensuring peace in the entire process, pleading with the Aspirants to conduct themselves well and not employ absurd machinations to mar the sustained peace enjoyed in Tamale for a long while now.
Mr. Mohammed Awal disclosed that Peace Council has been monitoring campaign activities of all the Aspirants since the inception of the process, expressing satisfaction about their conduct relative to their campaign messages, ideas and counter ideas, but maintains that more need to be done through endurance of pain, patience, and restraint by aspirants to achieve the ultimate peace in the process.
He also noted that producing a credible winner for the NDC at the end of the contest should not be the outstanding goal for the Aspirants but ensuring incident free elections with peaceful outcome should rather be the Hallmark.
Some of the Aspirants also seized the moment to plead with the Peace Council to involve Party Executives in the Peace dialogue process in their subsequent engagement for eventuality such as this, for true reflection of fair representation of stakeholders who matter in the entire peace value chain.
While other Aspirants underscores the need for fairness and transparency as ingredients to peace in the fierce contest, they urge the Peace Council to advocate for these elements from the organizers in this process.
Story by: Inusah Dondaliya