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Princess Gloria Akobundu, the Chief Execution Officer (CEO), New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), Nigeria, has call for collaboration among stakeholders to ensure violent free election in 2019.
Akobundu made the call on Wednesday in Abuja at the closing ceremony of a three-day sensitization workshop on violent free election organized by NEPAD.
She pledged to expedite the implementation of the resolutions reached at the workshop, adding that the 2019 general election was around the corner.
The CEO said NEPAD and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) would partner with stakeholders to ensure that the campaign for violent free election was taken to the grassroots.
According to her, this programme will not be workshop as usual, we must see results and so, all stakeholders must work together to stop electoral violence in Nigeria.
`The media, the civil societies, the clergy, the traditional rulers, the community heads and other stakeholders must play their roles to end violence before, during and after elections.
“These stakeholders in this campaign must work together with the government to get the expected results and youths must refuse to be used as agents of trouble and violence,” she said.
Dr Tony Nwaka, a participant at the workshop, commended NEPAD for the programme, adding that the awareness being created was timely ahead of the 2019 general elections.
He said the programe and the various papers presented were instructive but advocated that the message be taking to the grassroots.
According to him, if we act in line with what we have heard and help to ensure smooth implantation of the recommendations, it will go a long way in strengthen our electoral process and democratic structure. (NAN)
