2023: APC PCC launches app, bridge knowledge gap among youths

By Tom Okpe

As the general elections in the country approaches, the Presidential Campaign Council, (PCC) of the All progressives Congress, (APC) has launched an application, ‘Thinking Caps’ to bridge knowledge gap among youths and all Nigerians.

The app is expected to educate, provide vital information and publish requisite capacity to think out of the box and provide lasting solutions to diverse socio-economic challenges, confronting the nation by the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima.

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday in Abuja, the PCC Director, Strategic Communications, Alhaji Mohammed Idris said the initiative was aimed at ensuring youth, irrespective of political affiliation, get more information about Tinubu, his antecedents, the APC government and the opposition.

He said the app will have a ‘quiz feature’ which will be a means of educating the youth by getting them to attempt questions and have fun.

Idris further said the app also, has News Feed where users can read news and articles about the campaign, Gallery icon where audio, infographics, and video content, viewed and shared on various social media with the capacity to directly engage the 93.4m registered voters.

“The demographic analysis of our population shows that the youth aged 35 and below, constitute over 60% of our population.

“This means, Nigeria is a young country, too young to know that there was a world without computers and GSM phones, not to talk of internet and social media.

“As far as these youth are concerned, End-SARS protest was the biggest civil disobedience and fight for citizens’ rights that has ever happened.

“They cannot understand what the older population is talking about, when they talk about military rule and how rights and privileges of citizens were curtailed.

“They have no idea that some people met gun-wielding soldiers and some paid the supreme price fighting for democracy.

“They are not familiar with what it means to be pro-democracy activists, and the sacrifices they made that culminated in the democracy we enjoy today.

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“So, it suffices to say if 60% of our population did not witness these events and have no knowledge about them, they are not able to make informed choice amongst the front-runners in the race, with particular reference to the candidature of Bola Tinubu.

“When we say Tinubu is Lagos, they wonder what we said, when they were either unborn or too young to know the hitherto decrepit nature of Oshodi, Mushin, Obalende, Ojuelegba, CMS, amongst others.

“They don’t know what Lekki was or the existential threat that Victoria Island faced because of the ocean surge.

“They have no idea of the state of the Lagos infrastructure or the general quality of life of Lagosians before Tinubu became Governor, same way they have no idea about the great achievements of Senator Kashim Shettima as Governor of an insurgency-ridden Borno State.

“We have a responsibility to fill this knowledge gap and educate this critical demography with facts about our opponents. This app educates the youths about the 16 years of misrule under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“With launch of the app, we are poised to uniquely tell our story and market our candidate as the best amongst the rest.

“With 24 days to the elections, the time to convince the electorate to secure an emphatic victory cannot be more auspicious.

“The app is our innovation to get this done so that Tinubu can install the ‘Renewed Hope’ mantra to the benefit of all Nigerians,” he added.