BY EBEN ENASCO KINGSLEY(BENIN)
Nigerian youths of voting age have been urged to keep the peace and shun all forms of violence during and after the presidential elections on Saturday.
Patriot Mutairu Habib Odion, the state commandant of the Peace Corps of Nigeria made the appeal yesterday while briefing newsmen on the role of youths in the coming general elections said the need to protect the nation supersedes all personal interests.
According to Odion, the peace Corps as an organisation has been at the forefront of calls on the Nigerian youth to look beyond the present of peanuts to function as party thugs during elections in favour of an enduring future where peace guarantees development and employment.
“We are of the view that the need to keep Nigeria as an indivisible united nation is indisputable and that is why we have been working hard on sensitising our youths to be active in creating the conducive political atmosphere for the conduct of a non-violent peaceful, free and fair General Elections”.
Odion said that Edo state command of the corps has been a leading light for the organisation nationwide with its sensitization campaign designed to engage youths in development programmes and projects that add value to society rather than those destroy it.
He said this has been through impacting the ethics and spirit of Peace Building, Disarmament, Conflict Resolution through Citizenship and Leadership Training, Patriotic education and re- orientation, hinged on the bed rock of strict discipline in various parts of the state.
Odion who was among the several Nigerian youths honoured by the National Headquarters of the PCN appealed to the present and incoming senators of the Federal Republic to look at ways of expedition action on the passage of the enabling law for the organisation, as it is in the National interest.
Meanwhile interested Nigerian youths of Edo origin have been called upon to seize the opportunity of being active participants in the building of a peaceful and united Nigeria by enrolling in Peace Corp of Nigeria, PCN
