…laments about 800,000 PVCs yet to be collected in Ogun State
The State Director, National Orientation Agency, Ogun State Directorate, Mr. Christopher Kolawole Obadina has disclosed that the only way Nigerian youth can be seen as representing the strength of the nation is to exercise their civic duties, rights and responsibilities by taking active part in the forthcoming general elections and the electoral process if Nigeria can be great again.
The NOA Ogun boss made this assertion while featuring as guest at a voter education sensitization Special Town Hall Meeting on “Election and Civic Responsibility” organized by a youth organization, “A Well-informed Adolescent (AWA) Initiative at Basic Trust International, Oke-Ilewo, on Saturday Jan. 14, in Abeokuta
Mr Obadina called on the youth and elites in the country not to stay at home on election days, but rather come out enmasse and vote candidate of their choice.
Mr. Obadina said instead of complaining about the situation of things, the youth should join politics and change the political narration from within for their good and that of the country.
He urged the youth to make positive use of their intelligence, population, especially as they constitute greater number of eligible voters for the 2023 general elections according to the demography released by INEC Nigeria, and social media presence to mobilize their friends, mates to come out to exercise their franchise at the elections
On the issue of about 800,000 PVCs yet to be collected in Ogun state, the State Director challenged the youth to join the NOA to intensify efforts at mobilizing, sensitising and orientating the youth and other eligible voters, using the available opportunity that INEC Nigeria has provided with the extension of collection of PVCs by a week, to mobilise them to collect their PVCs which is now at the ward levels nearer to the grassroot.
Other speakers at the town hall meeting includes the Resident Electoral Commissioner, INEC, Ogun State represented by Mrs Celina.O. Beckley, who delivered a speech on “PVC collection; BIVAS Operations and Election Procedures” and the Commissioner of Police (COMPOL), Ogun State Command represented by Asst. Commissioner of Police, ACP, (Operations) Titus Ayodeji, who spoke on “Election Security Procedure, Preparations and Planning”
The town hall meeting was well attended by different youth organizations namely @Red Cross Society, Ogun State Youth Wing, SUG Executive, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Ojere, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Ojere Parliament, Young Africans Leadership Initiative and JCI Abeokuta Hills.
Other organizations in attendance includes, National Orientation Agency, NOA, INEC, Nigeria Police Force, Corbler and Leathers Association of Nigeria, Abeokuta branch and Yiaga Africa.
