Campaign against vote buying, FCT minister asks corps members

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Muhammad Musa Bello has tasked corps members serving in the FCT to embark on sensitization programmes to educate the electorate on the criminality of vote buying and selling of votes.

He spoke yesterday at the closing ceremony of the 2018 Batch ‘C’ stream 1 corps members in Abuja.

“As you are all aware, the political landscape is agog. In the months ahead, a lot of political aggrandizement will evolve with various political parties seeking ascendancy into elective offices in the FCT and the nation.

“You are expected to be apolitical and none partisan in all ramifications. Your participation must always reflect that of the umpire by virtue of NYSC collaboration with INEC and all security agencies for peaceful conduct of all political campaigns and by implication, a free, fair and credible election in 2019.

“I charge you to embark on a sensitization spree to intimate the electorates within the FCT on the criminality of vote buying and selling of votes. Educate them also on the need to always defend their votes, and to vote their conscience at all times,” he said.

The minister was represented by the Director, Finance and Administration, FCT Social Development Secretariat, Hajia Salia Umar.

On his part, FCT Coordinator of the NYSC, Mr Bello Ballama, congratulated the corps members and urged them to brace up for the task ahead their service year as “it is quite enormous.”