BIRNIN KEBBI – The National Orientation Agency (NOA) in Kebbi State on Saturday commenced voter education campaign as part of efforts to ensure that registered voters would elect credible leaders.
The state Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Shehu Sambawa, who represented Gov. Saidu Dakingari, at the event, directed state owned media stations to ensure equal coverage of activities of all the all political parties.
Sambwa urged media stations to be fair and neutral in their coverage of political campaigns, stressing that state owned media stations had been so directed on the issue.
He advised the media organisations to shun inflammatory messages for sustenance of peace and unity in the country.
Sambwa advised the media to “give priority to enlightenment on policies and programmes and issues of unity”.
He used the occasion to call on political parties to enlighten their members on the importance of peace and unity and commended the NOA for the campaign on voter education.
“The campaign would ensure that issues of invalid votes were eliminated,” he said.
The Acting Director of NOA in the state, Mr Joseph Yaro, said the agency would ensure that the campaign reached rural dwellers, “in our quest to sustain democracy”.
“The agency would also dissuade people from violence and thuggery in preference to dialogue in resolving issues,” he said.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Alhaji Mukaila Abdullahi, commended NOA for embarking on the voter education campaign.
He, however, decried the failure of registered voters to collect their permanent voter cards, stressing that: “we hope people would not deny themselves of their civic duties”. (NAN)
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