The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) has begun mobilisation of its activists for voter education at the grassroots towards the 2023 general elections.
Its Executive Chairman, Comrade Debo Adeniran disclosed that the Lagos, Imo, Adamawa, Kogi, Borno and Akwa Ibom states, had been slated for the pilot project which had already taken off.
He said the programme would be held simultaneously in the stated states to ensure that Nigerian voters at the grassroots demand accountability and good governance from those who would be running for public offices in the 2023 elections.
According to him, experience in the past had shown that Nigerian political leaders always made promises during campaigns and after they had been voted into office, they would abandon the masses, without fulfilling their promises.
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He added that Nigerians, particularly the activists drawn from the local levels, should not shirk their responsibility of brining the government and leaders into accountability for their actions.
He maintained that to do so, the people should begin from when such political leaders would be campaigning for the various electoral offices, even as he urged Nigerians and the activists to take the aspirants and candidates to task on their manifestoes and what projects they would have in mind.
Adeniran stressed that people should also follow up, even after the candidates had been elected to ensure that they carried out their campaign promises.
He urged people to take interest in the budgets of states and local governments, ask questions where necessary to put the governments and public officers on their toes so that the elected officials would not abandon the projects and the people on ascending to power.