2023: Your Vote Is Your Power, Don’t Sell It – NANS Urges Members
Your Vote Is Your Power, Don’t Sell It – NANS Urges Members.
The Executive Director, Special Duties National Association of Nigerian Students National Secretariat, Comrade Oladimeji Uthman has charged all Nigerian students across the country not to mortgage their future by selling their votes in the forthcoming general election but to mobilize en mass to vote credible and competent leaders who have the experience, competence and capacity to save Nigeria from her current woes.
Comrade Oladimeji gave the charge during a press briefing held in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. He urged Nigerian Students who are eligible voters in the forthcoming election to abide by the rules of law and conduct themselves in manners worthy of progressive leaders we look up to and also not to allow them to be used for thuggery or be deceived into selling their votes for cheap and discounted gains.
I want to encourage us all to desist from being instruments of destruction and mayhem in the hands of unscrupulous politicians who after election neglect the students constituency, he said.
He charged them to vote for candidates who can revamp, rescue, reimpose and save our beloved country from its myriad of socio-economic and educational challenges.
Comrade Oladimeji said, Nigerian Students have the largest percentage of the youth population, and as such, we need to mobilize en masse and make sure our votes count while ensuring that the guidelines and code of conducts of the election are preserved. We should not be swayed by vote selling which may translate to election apathy. We are not for sale neither our votes are for sale.
With our PVCs, we will vote out incompetent leaders at the helms of affairs and ensure reliable and capacitated candidates emerge in order to save our future and the nation.
The conduct of election is multifaceted and must be gotten right at every level in order to achieve its main purpose of ensuring the mandate of the electorates are upheld beyond all odds. Thus, it is eminent that stakeholders, candidates, party agents, INEC Officials, ad-hoc staffs, journalists, observers and security agents see this general election as a clarion call, he said.
“With our votes, Nigeria will get better, educational and economic development is sacrosanct and things will change for the better. Let nobody deceives you, no politician ambition worths our blood”, he submitted.
