Southern youths move to curb voter apathy, mobilise for CVR

. Endorse Sukubo for NYCN president

By Steve Oko

Southern Nigeria Ethnic Youth from 17 Southern states person vowed to extremity elector apathy among Southern youths.

Emphasising the request for nationalist unity and cohesion, the youths besides vowed to defy immoderate effort by politicians to disagreement Nigeria on political, taste oregon spiritual lines.

This is arsenic they person unanimously endorsed Ambassador Sukubo Sara-Igbe Sukubo for a 2nd word arsenic the nationalist President of the National Youth Council of Nigeria.

Addressing a property league aft their gathering successful Umuahia, Abia State capital, the groups, including Yoruba Youths Council, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths, Ijaw Youths Council, Efik Youths Assembly, Ijaw Youths Council , among others, argued that the refusal of youths to enactment successful the electoral process was the crushed atrocious leaders emerge.

They urged each eligible youths to instrumentality vantage of the ongoing voter’s registration workout to get their imperishable voter’s paper to alteration them enactment successful ethe lectoral process.

“The mistake of the youths, which really leads to the hunger, is not participating successful elections. It is our close to workout our franchise.

“Most of the youths, shy away. That is wherefore we sensitize them connected the request to get their voter’s paper and take a person of their choice; a person they judge volition salvage them.

” This volition alteration the concern of the day; the system of the day; the famine and the hunger eating up Nigeria. We request to prime leaders who person the method know-how to grip the affairs of the country.

“How are we going to bash that if we beryllium astatine the sideline? That is the much crushed we request to travel retired arsenic youths. sensitize others who privation to beryllium astatine location to spell out, get their voter’s paper and get prepared for the forthcoming elections successful 2027”.

The youths blamed the increasing poorness successful the state connected the ostentatious manner of the governmental people particularly Governors which they said, is chocking the country.

“The occupation we person is the governors of definite states who judge that the authorities treasury is conscionable for them to cheer up their luxurious manner and nonstop their aides and household members retired to spell and bask successful different countries, thing they would person been capable to supply for the communal man. This way, they plunge the full populace into poverty.”

In a communique work by the President, Southern Nigeria Youths Assembly, Engr. Moses Njoku, the youths said they were satisfied with the “visionary enactment and ingenuity” of Sukubo, hence their unanimous endorsement of his candidacy for a 2nd tenure.

“We are assured successful him, and we afloat judge that helium volition springiness america the champion successful his 2nd term. He is 1 antheral that has been skilled successful authorities craftsmanship; a befitting quadrate peg successful a quadrate hole.”

They enumerated his efforts successful facilitating occupation opportunities for youths, fostering bid betwixt Northern and Southern youths, progressive mindedness arsenic portion of the crushed for the endorsement.

According to them, Sukubo facilitated implicit 280 jobs for youths wrong the lipid and state mainstream sub-sector.

“He has besides brought to bear, a batch of concern with captious stakeholders wrong the lipid and state sub-sector to guarantee that the youths of this state are galvanized, and re-integrated into the strategy of things.

“Before now, Nigerian youths person not truly featured decently wrong the lipid and state space. But helium single-handedly partnered with notable lipid and state players wrong that manufacture to guarantee that a batch of Nigerian youths were decently engaged. Some of them are inactive overseas for internship”, the youths said.

On the continued detention of the person of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Southern Nigeria youths said they had been engaging the national government, expressing optimism astir a affirmative outcome.

Some of the younker leaders contiguous astatine the property league were the President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths Council, Ambassador Uchenna Obiora; National President of Efik Youths Council, Christopher Ekpenyong; Prince Dalolu Sukubo, Chief Priest Jami Salako, Arc. Achi Chris Achi, Matthew Oyhi, among others.

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