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THE POWER OF THE PERMANENT VOTERS CARD (PVC)

It is about time again! The Nigerian 2019 general elections are fast approaching.
You spent the last 3 years listening to legislators from your region talking with no visible in your community.
You spent years listening to a governor explain how he can't pay your salary but yet he and his friends live large and build statues worth millions of Naira.
You have spend years getting explanation on why you don't still have adequate power supply , good roads and job opportunities. You have seen a switch in political parties yet situations remain the same.
Your weapon for 2019 is you Permanent voters card (PVC).

Steps on how to use this PVC:
  • If you don't have one, go and get one.
  • lf you have a friend that doesn't have one, wait for him to complain about any bad situation in the country. Tell him his solution is in the PVC
  • Stop voting for Parties. Vote for individuals. Even your favorite party can field bad candidates.
  •  If he has been in position before, he is not your candidate. If he was in the corridors of power since 1999, he is not your candidate. If he is as old as your grandma, he is not your candidate.
  • Vote up and down ballot. Learn about the candidates from Local Government level to Presidency. If you know good traits about him, be vocal about it. Don't be quiet. Get involved.
  • Shop for candidates that have been adding value to your community even without political power. That shows to kind of passion in community building. Beware of those that start doing project on election eve to gain your support.
  • They will come with money and big rallies, musicians, tribal and ethnic sentiments to lure you into voting them. Be clear, the money being distributed is not a favor. That money belongs to you in the first place. Take the gifts and your entitlement but vote progressives. 
  • Vote and get a result before leaving the polling station. Defend your vote. We are trying to wrestle power from principalities in high places. We are going to do it at the LG level, at the ward level and at the State level.
  • What will change because the 2 major political parties will still win in most states you may ask? That is true but in other to out do each other, they will field candidates that will win them the elections. They believe that who ever spends more money on the people during the campaign gets the votes. If we start asking for better candidates with certain qualities, they will have to field such candidates to win.
A PEOPLE GET THE TYPE OF LEADERS THEY AS FOR OR DESERVE.

Before you say this is not achievable, note that these principalities are not more than 10000 people destroying the nation. But we are in our millions being deceived elections after elections. They never change! Same old face but different parties.


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