Nigerian’s youths have been urged to champion the course of free, fair and credible elections this months and March 11th general elections.
Speaking in Awka, the Vice President of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Damian Okeke Ogene said youths have a responsibility of protecting their future. Paul Ezeoke reports that Chief Okeke Ogene expressed satisfaction that Nigerians are now more politically aware and ready to take ownership of the country by using their Permanent Voter Cards to enthrone people-oriented administration that will change the national narrative.
He urged the electorate to look beyond ethnicity and religion and vote according to their conscience and cautioned youths against being willing tools in the hands of self-seeking politicians who may want to recruit them as thugs during the elections while their own children are safe in foreign countries.
Chief Okeke Ogene commended the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC for remaining consistent in the implementation of its schedule for the general elections and urged it to ensure early and adequate deployment of personnel and logistics to various poll centres to avoid delays and hitches, while urging security agencies to be alive to their responsibilities to encourage mass participation in the exercise.
On the scarcity of the new naira notes, the Ohaneze Ndigbo Vice President called on commercial banks to avoid acts that would further subject Nigerians to economic hardship.
In his reaction, a community leader Chief Christopher Okpala, regretted that the allegation of hoarding of the new naira notes is sabotaging the implementation of the policy while a trader Mrs Chinwe Izunna said the scarcity of the new naira notes has brought down tempo of socioeconomic activities.
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