Anambra Governorship Election: 8000 Corpers To Participate

A cross section of Corps members

Around 8000 serving corps individuals are to take part in the November 18 Anambra gubernatorial election.

The State's Coordinator of NYSC, Ebenezer Olawale, who dropped the insight while tending to writers in Awka, said the information of corps individuals had just been transmitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in that regard.

“As we all know, corps members are supposed to be non-partisan, they are not from this state so we expect them to be fair and they are evenly distributed across the state.

“We have no fewer than 10,000 corps members in this state but assuming that not all of them will be interested in taking part in the election, we have 8,000 available for this purpose.

"Very soon we shall commence sensitisation visits to my members to ensure that they all participate and alley their fears too because when they do their work well there is nothing to be afraid of." he added.

 “We have a strong inter-agency collaboration with the Police and other security agencies. They have assured us that there would be full mobilisation of security personnel to ensure that NYSC members taking part in the election are safe.

“Moreover, Anambra is not known for election violence, they prefer to sort their issues out in the law courts rather than resorting to violence.

He approached the corps individuals to behave in agreement to the way and principles set by INEC to guarantee a reasonable, free and trustworthy election.


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