Anambra governorship: CLO boss challenges Obiano, others on sensitisation of voters

The governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, the Speaker and members of State House of Assembly and political appointees in the state have been challenged to go to their constituencies to sensitise their constituents on the compelling need to participate in the November 18, 2017 governorship election.
The chairman, Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) in Anambra State, Comrade Vincent Ezekwume who made this appeal in a statement made available to newsmen in the state also appealed to stakeholders and opinion leaders in Anambra State such as traditional rulers, religious leaders, president-generals of town unions, market leaders, students union leaders, labour and civil society leaders to join in the campaign for the Anambra people to come out en masse to discharge their civil duty that day.
While condemning the continuous call for the boycott of election by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), the Comrade said “boycott of the election will be very detrimental to social, economic and political development of our dear state. The political class should discomfort themselves in order to comfort the citizens, thereby restoring people’s confidence in government and in leadership, so that agitations, secession, restiveness, anarchy, lawlessness, injustice and unemployment will be reduced to the barest minimum or totally eliminated.”
He contended that it was only through elections that citizens renew or withdraw their mandates given to its leaders; hence the generality of Anambra people should not miss this golden opportunity.
Appealing to the people to vote for credible candidate, who has the best programme for the people of the state, he quoted Edmund Burke as saying that “the reasons we are being governed as fools are because good people sit down and do nothing.”
He said the threat of election boycott was real, hence the need for the stakeholders to educate the citizens to understand that election boycott would not be in the best interest of all, rather it would worsen the already painful and pathetic situation of our people.
But beyond IPOB threat, Ezekwueme lamented that “majority of our citizens exhibit arrogant display of ignorance by their lukewarm attitude towards the November 18, governorship election.”