By Joseph Edegbo
Participants at a one day Programme on Voter Education have tasked the electorates to vote only credible candidates or parties that are committed to upholding the principles of Open Government Partnerships and Local Government Autonomy.
In a Communique issued at the end of the programme in Kaduna, North west of the country, the participants resolved to step down the information gotten at the program to other members of their communities and ensure to mobilise them to actively participate in the electoral process. ‘
Similarly, they would embark on advocacy visit to take up the issues of adopting Open Government Partnership and local government autonomy alongside other demands with candidates and political parties as conditions for support to them.
Other resolutions include, to organise political debate for candidates and get written commitments on Open Government Partnership and local government autonomy,
incumbent members of the Kaduna State House of Assembly to vote ‘yes’ to local government autonomy before the expiration of their tenure, and to advocate and engage the Kaduna North local government council to adopt and domesticate the co-creation principles of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), as well as employ the use of social media as a tool to demand transparency, accountability and responsiveness from the government.
The CSOs agreed to organise a capacity building engagement to deepen the understanding of selected active citizens on OGP and equip them with approaches for engaging the process.
The interactive programme organised by a coalition of CSOs was aimed at educating voters and equipping them with the strategies to demand for the adoption of OPG and Local Government Autonomy as Pre- requisite for supporting candidates and political parties.
It had participants drawn from the 12 Wards in Kaduna North Local Government with representations from traditional Institutions, religious, political parties and community based groups.
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