Nehemiah Ifeanyi Nwosu - NIN ❤️🇳🇬🐐

Yesterday evening, the Students Union Government (SUG) and Alumni association of University of Africa, Toru-orua presented an award of recognition to me and decorated me as grand patron of the association. I thanked them for the visit and the recognition and emphasized that education goes beyond being a meal ticket, it is a powerful instrument that equips individuals with the knowledge and capacity to transform society. Meanwhile, today, I had robust engagements with youth leaders from Bayelsa west comprising: the Ofurumapepe Youths Group (my youth support group in Sagbama), Bayelsa West Youths Congress, they came to officially welcome me and interact with me even though they have been part of all the activities. I thank them for their unflinching loyalty, support and solidarity all these years. Similarly, I received the local government and ward leadership of the Bayelsa West Youth Congress, Ekeremor chapter who also came to interact with me on my return and I thanked them for their support. I assured them of my appreciation of their sacrifices and the hardship they have been subjected to, discrimination and exclusion. These were the young men who followed my directives to work to install the present administration, now they’ve found themselves as outsiders. They are steadfast inspite of the harassment, inducement and intimidations, and I thanked them for their steadfastness and support. I urged them to redouble their efforts and encouraged them to reach out to young people in their respective communities and wards. They must mobilise their people to engage their leaders and community elders and ensure that everyone works towards the peaceful conduct of elections. They should cooperate with INEC and security officials who come to carry out legitimate election-related activities. However, I reminded them that it is also their right to resist any attempt by security operatives and INEC who connive with unscrupulous politicians, irrespective of their status, to undermine free and fair elections in their communities. I urged them to remain vigilant, vote massively and protect their votes. We must demonstrate our numerical strength and resilience, not violence. They know that I am a proponent of non-violence and peaceful, credible elections in the state, and I expect them to maintain that standard. With the massive support we enjoy across our communities, they must mobilise as I have taught them over the years and prevent any mindless disruption of the electoral process in their communities. I also reminded them that no genuine security personnel, whether military, police or any other agency, has instructions from anyone, including the President, to invade their communities, maim, shoot or kill helpless voters. No Nigerian President, Chief of Staff or Inspector-General of Police would issue such an instruction. Anyone who engages in such unlawful conduct should be resisted. I thanked them once again for their solidarity and urged them to mobilise for peaceful elections. I also received members of the Ofurumapepe new media team, Bayelsa West Senatorial district. I similarly thanked them for their support, encouragement and steadfastness. I urged them to interact with their community officials, particularly as they have media representatives across various communities, to ensure that activities on election day are properly captured. I reminded them that it is their right to document everything that happens and expose electoral malpractice, abuse of office or any violation of the electoral law by any official. They must capture events and resist any attempt by security or INEC officials to manipulate the electoral process in their communities.