The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Civil Society Organisations and electoral stakeholders have called on Nigerian electorates to seize the opportunity of the 2019 general elections to vote out corrupt people from power.
The groups made the call, on weekend, in Asaba, Delta State during the flag-off of a civic sensitisation campaign, tagged ‘The Citizen’s Duty in Enthroning Good Governance’ organised by Face to Face Political Network.
The stakeholders’ forum identified complacency, ignorance and gullibility of the citizenry as the manure that has sustained corrupt political leadership in Nigeria.
Guest Speaker and Executive Director of Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, Rev. David Ugolor, told Nigerians to organise themselves into rights and action groups to ask for credible leaders and good governance, using the 2019 general election as a launch pad.
Also speaking, representative of INEC in Delta State at the event, Mrs. Ugochi Nwaubani, called on civil society groups such as Face to Face Political Network to mobilise and educate Nigerians to collect their Permanent Voters Cards, PVC, and come out enmasse to vote, check voters apathy and high incidence of void votes.
Executive Director of Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice, CEPEJ, Mr. McDonald Ekemezie, who spoke in the same vain, highlighted the citizen’s role in the enthronement of good governance.
Advocating an electorate-driven leadership system, where political power truly resides with the people and calling for a revolutionary change of corrupt and inept leadership at all levels of government through the ballot, they charged Face to Face Network to champion the movement in Delta State.
The forum further implored INEC to identity and partner with relevant and genuine CSOs such as the Face-to-Face Political in the discharge of its constitutional responsibilities of conducting elections and enthroning credible governments and entrenching Nigeria’s democracy.
