Women turn out in large numbers as the APM Ganye coordinator tours the wards; Chief Charles Bansi says the cassava on the party’s logo stands for food, relief and a new season of hope.
GANYE, ADAMAWA STATE – November 5, 2026
Women are fast becoming one of the strongest forces in the Allied Peoples Movement’s (APM) grassroots campaign across Adamawa’s 21 local government areas. On Thursday, the women of Samgassumi Ward showed why.
They gathered in large numbers at the residence of Chief Charles Bansi, a respected politician and stakeholder of the APM who has lived in Samgassumi for years. The ward gave him the honour of hosting the meeting. The event was organised by Magdalene Joshua, the Ganye Local Government Coordinator in the mobilisation office of the wife of the APM governorship candidate, Abdulrahaman Bashir Haske.
Joshua has embarks on awareness tour to the coordinators of all ten wards in Ganye. Samgassumi was her stop on Thursday.
Speaking to our correspondent, she said it is her duty, as a women’s coordinator under the mobilisation office, to ensure that the APM is widely accepted across Ganye. She urged the women to take the message beyond the meeting, into their families, neighbourhoods and social circles. Women, she stressed, must not be spectators in the process that decides who leads Adamawa. Other speakers called on them to mobilise support for Haske and for Masaud, the APM candidate for the Ganye State House of Assembly seat.
The most memorable moment came from the host. A political scientist by training, Chief Bansi recalled a lesson from his primary school days to explain why cassava features on the APM logo.
He linked the crop to the daily struggle of households trying to put food on the table. Invoking “Cassava, Pigo, Rogo Mbai”, the names for cassava in Chamba, Fulani and Hausa, he described it as a symbol of food security, resilience and affordability.
Politics, he said, must go beyond slogans and personalities to the real concerns of the people: hunger, hardship and the need for a brighter future. He charged the women to explain the symbol in their communities. A new season of hope and relief, he declared, is on the horizon.
The Samgassumi meeting is the latest stop in the APM’s grassroots drive. Women shape opinion where it matters most, at the family and community level, in everyday conversations and relationships. Their involvement could prove decisive for the campaign’s reach.
Whether this enthusiasm will become votes is a question only the ballot can answer. But in Ganye, cassava now carries a message of hunger, hope, cultural identity and the aspiration for a better tomorrow, and the women of Samgassumi have taken it up.
