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  • 2023: Desist from vote buying and selling- CSO urges politicians, electorate

    2023: Desist from vote buying and selling- CSO urges politicians, electorate

    A Civil Society Organisation (CSO), identified as Advocacy for Good Ethics and Accountability for Development, has urged politicians to shun vote buying and concentrate on issues that would attract votes from the electorate.

    The Executive Director, Henry Thomas, made the call during a Sensitisation Programme titled “Vote in Peace“ with the theme; Curbing Vote Buying and Other Irregularities; a Panacea to a successful 2023 election held in Abuja on Wednesday.

    Thomas also called on the electorate to vote based on competence of the candidates not the amount made available to them by politicians.

    He said that it was wrong for politicians to prioritise vote-buying at the expense of quality representation.

    The Executive Director stated that Nigeria was among the most peaceful countries in the world but the story changed over time, due to bad leadership, religious and ethnic sentiments.

    He said; “Nigeria as a country has no business with poverty which has been the major reason for the insecurity in the country.

    “Nigeria is a country that God has blessed with almost everything except good leadership.

    “The political class have been very united in disuniting the citizens and the instruments for which they have successfully perpetrated this unholy act are religion, language and ethnicity,” he said.

    “The future of this country is not in the hands of any political party, it is not in the hands of any individual but it is in the hands of the people of Nigeria,” he said.

    He urged Nigerians to vote rightfully and should not sell their votes.

    In a remark, the President of a Civil Society Group for Good Governance, Mr Ogakwu Dominic called for stringent measures to check the menace of vote trading during the 2023 general elections, reiterating the importance as one which will secure us and save our country from penultimate disaster.

    Also speaking, Presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), Mr Omoyele Sowore, expressed concerns over the destruction of the Independent National Electoral Commission’s facilities in some parts of the country.

    Sowore urged politicians to desist from actions that could raise anxiety culminating in electoral violence during the campaigns in next year general elections.

  • 2023: Nigerians are ready to support PDP – Elumelu

    2023: Nigerians are ready to support PDP – Elumelu

    The Minority Leader, House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, says Nigerians are solidly behind the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as long as its choice for the 2023 general elections reflects their aspirations for a new beginning.

    Elumelu stated this on Thursday in Abuja at the 93rd National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the PDP.

    He said that PDP’s resolutions at its last NEC meeting held on Aug. 28, in charting the way through its challenges, had brought a deep relief to Nigerians.

    He said Nigerians were now confident that the party was the only viable option to rescue the nation at this critical time.

    “With my vantage position as a parliamentarian, I make regular contact with Nigerians from all walks of life.

    “I am happy to report to NEC that such confidence has been reinvigorated by the way and manner in which our party has handled our challenges.

    “Nevertheless, it is ‘not yet uhuru’. The charge beckons on us all, now than ever before, to be even more united in jettisoning all personal interests and assuming a more nationalistic approach in all our decisions and discourses.

    “This will provide our compatriots with the much-needed platform to forcefully rally for the task ahead.

    “We must bear in mind that our decisions and activities will not only affect the fate of our party but that of Nigerians in general in their quest to salvage our nation from the All Progressives Congress (APC), “he said.

    Elumelu said that Nigerians could not wait to see the PDP back to power to end killings, terrorism, banditry, economic hardship, poverty and hopelessness.

    “The only assurance of security and a return to life of unity, peace, national cohesion and economic prosperity is in returning the PDP to power and Nigerians are determined to follow us to the end.

    “In this regard, I charge every one of us to make sacrifices as we gear up towards the forthcoming national convention so that we will elect competent national officers who will eventually lead us to victory.

    “In all, one thing is sure. If we work hard and not relent, the PDP will be reinstated to power, come May 29, 2023,” Elumelu said.

    The Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe, urged the people of Anambra to vote PDP in the Nov. 6 governorship election.

    He pledged PDP National Assembly members support for the party as it chats a course to take over Nigeria in 2023, starting from its convention on Oct. 30.

    “I enjoined every one of us to work hard for this party and I believe that, God willing, the sufferings of Nigerians today will be a thing of the past in no distant time,” Abaribe said.(NAN)