The Forward With Buhari Campaign Group says it has kicked off registration of Volunteers of its initiative tagged “National anti-rigging Volunteers”.
The Secretary of the Group and Human Rights Lawyer, Dr Kayode Ajulo, disclosed this in Lagos on Wednesday after a meeting with stakeholders.
He explained that the initiative was aimed at checkmating vote rigging across the nation in the 2019 presidential election.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the team was unveiled in Abuja on Tuesday.
Ajulo said the initiative was part of the group’s proposed mass mobilisation and mandate protection to ensure that the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari was not scuttled.
He said the group had already commenced the recruitment of youths who would be equipped with necessary Information Communication gadgets for exposing rigging or voters inducement.
He said: “We are aware that the opposition is preparing to disorganise the forthcoming presidential election, judging by its recent public statements.
“Nigerians in their millions wants President Buhari re-elected. What we are out to do is to ensure that the will of the majority of Nigerians prevail at the polls.
“It will be a huge loss to Nigerians if their wishes are scuttled by a few unconscientious politicians who are more interested in self than the generality of the people.”
Ajulo said that some lovers of Buhari and Nigerians in Diaspora had pledged sufficient deployment of equipment to volunteers across the 774 councils in the country.
He added that a Situation Control Room would be located in Abuja, the Federal capital and its Zonal offices.
Ajulo urged Nigerians to sustain their belief in the ability of Buhari to take Nigeria to the next level, adding that “Nigerians shall resist any attempt to truncate democracy and return Nigeria to the inglorious era of the PDP”.
He asked Nigerians to recollect that the Peoples Democratic Party was used to rigging and now afraid of their shadow which was the rationale for raising alarm on rigging.
This said: “The online recruitment kicked off this morning. At the end, we will hold meetings and educate volunteers at various states and zonal levels on effective monitoring and how to deploy equipment to monitor elections.”
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