By Sunday Isuwa, Abuja
Diaspora group asks Nigerian voters to come out en masse for the March 18 Governorship and State Assembly Elections, and not to be deterred by the irregularities experienced during the presidential polls.
Diaspora Medics For Good Governance (DM4GG) who made the advice, said Nigerians should vote for candidates that will promote good governance in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
In a statement co-signed by the Directors of DM4GG – Dr Chukwudi Muojieje, Dr Kunle Adedeji, Dr Chete M Eze-Nliam, Dr Idu Nwapa, Prof Dilly Anumba, and Mrs Maureen Aghomon – they noted the widespread dissatisfaction with the conduct of the Presidential elections on February 25, and appealed to Nigerian voters not to be deterred by the irregularities that occurred, but to come out in large numbers to perform their civic duties by voting on March 18, 2023.
The statement reads in part, “The Diaspora Medics for Good Governance (DM4GG), a diaspora-based group comprising mainly medical professionals with the vision of restoring Nigeria’s health and related sectors to their full potential, has expressed dissatisfaction with the conduct of the February 25 Presidential election, noting that it was characterized by irregularities and electoral manipulations”.
” DM4GG believes that good governance is indispensable to the actualization of a vibrant and healthy society and therefore appeals to Nigerian voters to come out and carry out their civic duties by voting on March 18, 2023 during the Governorship and State House of Assembly elections.
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The group added that in order to avert irregularities and rigging at the forthcoming Governorship and State House of Assembly elections on March 18, it has evaluated and endorsed the WhatsApp Bot developed by Mrs. Itoro Liney to be used to report election results from the polling Units across the 176,974 Polling Units in the country. DM4GG strongly recommends that voters report the conduct and results of the elections in their Polling Unit (PU) using this Bot, accessible via the link as follows: https://t.co/e3coD4RDN1
Giving an explanation on how to use the WhatsApp Application, the group said that “the idea is to send results from our respective Polling Units to a central collating place, so that the true results are documented in real time and compared to the eventual official results declared by INEC, thereby ensuring that we can have confidence in the process
