The Connected Development (CODE) has urged Nigerians, especially the women and youths, to collect and keep their permanent voters cards (PVCs) to be able to vote credible leaders in 2023 general elections.
The Chief Executive Officer of CODE and Follow The Money, Malam Hamzat Lawal, made the call at Angwan Dadi, a suburb in Nyanya under the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC).
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According to him, the event was the continuation of the sensitisation of Nigeria electorates on the 2023 general elections and take the ‘PVC, Our Future; SGD, Leave No One Behind’ to the grassroots to boost participation in the 2023 elections.
The event also witnessed empowerment of 50 women and youths with cash on the need for people not to sell their votes.
Lawal said that bad choices and selling of votes is the reason the community is still backward in terms of social amenities.
“We want you to collect your PVC and vote for the people you want. Don’t vote for money. This community has no primary health care nor primary school.
“Use your PVCs to vote for people that will provide basic amenities for the community. Now, anyone that is sick in this community, he has to go to Nyanya or Mararaba hospitals.
“We are happy that we came around this time and the drainage is being constructed. Angwan Dadi community is the most peaceful despite the fact that they don’t have social amenities,” Lawal said.
He also said the community has been left behind because there is neither primary health care center or primary schools, urging the people of the community to use their PVCs to correct the situation by voting those that can turn things around for better for them.
He said, “The candidates will soon come to these communities to campaign. They will make promises. Ask when their promises will be executed so that you can hold them accountable. If you queue, if anyone gives you money to vote for his or her candidate, shout so that the police will arrest that person.”
On his part, the Angwan Dadi youth leader, Mr. Samson Solomon, thanked CODE for the empowerment and support they are always giving to the community adding that the people are now better empowered for the 2023 general elections.
He also assured that the community would not sell their votes and vote for those that can make the community and the country better.
