2023 Elections: Organisation urges youth to take responsibility, maintain peace

Junior Chamber International (JCI), a non-profit organisation of young people, have called on Nigerian youths to take responsibility during and after the general elections.

The President of the JCI, Mr Samuel Chinonyerem, made the call while addressing newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday.

He said that youths should also make it a duty to go and get their voter’s card and vote for their preferred candidates.

“We pray that government through the security agencies provide an enabling environment for peaceful elections.

“Politicians should desist from any act that will bring violence before, during and after the elections. Government of the people will emerge at the end of the 2023 elections,’’ he said.

The president said their prayers was predicated on the fact that, the relative peace t enjoyed in the country had been threatened by heightened insecurity.

He said that the heightened insecurity which cuts across all regions of the country, needed to stop for the country to experience economic growth.

Chinonyerem who further listed the causes of insecurity in the country, identified good governance as key to the solution.

He said having the right leadership in place would guarantee good governance and can only be possible if there was peace and security in country.

(NAN)

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has endorsed a House of Representatives member, Tolulope Akande-Sadipe for a second term for the Oluyole Federal Constituency of Ibadan.

A statement by Mr Lekan Olusada, Media Aide to AkandeSadipe, said the NANS National Vice President, External Affairs, Mr Akinteye Afeez, gave the endorsement when the leadership of the students’ body visited the member on Wednesday, in Ibadan.

Afeez said that the association had followed Akande-Sadipe’s achievements closely for years.

He said that a number of students in the diaspora had benefited from her educational programme for the constituency.

The student leader said, “she has built different school facilities in Oluyole Federal constituency that have provided good learning environment for pupils.

“Recently she presented a bill to make JAMB valid for three years; she is a thoughtful woman, “he said.

He urged her not to relent her efforts in developing the students, saying that the youth and students would ensure she won her reelection.

Responding, Akande-Sadipe, expressed delight over the endorsement, saying that the gathering was about the future of Oluyole.

“I want to thank NANS leadership for coming out to validate this God blessed mandate. My team and I are just starting.

“ The agenda for a better Oluyole Federal constituency is still on track. We will commit more into education in the constituency,“ he said.

She promised to continue to support education and give pupils the conducive environment to learn.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the association also presented a certificate of endorsement to the lawmaker.

NAN also reports that other students at the occasion declared their support for the lawmaker, over her quality contribution at the House of Representatives.

(NAN)