2023 Election: Youths Should Take Back Their Country- Labour Party Youth Leader, Eragbe

…. pledges free education, youth involvement in government

The Labour Party youth leader and Edo north senatorial candidate, Comrade Anslem Eragbe who emerged through consensus, has urged youths to take back their country, he also pledged free education when elected as a Senator coming 2023-2027.

He stated this in a Stakeholders Meeting, which featured details and highlights of strategies enumerated by him who also unveiled the Director General for the Edo-North 2023 Senatorial campaign organization, Professor Festus A Uwakhemen.

The high point of the occasion witnessed the Unveiling of the funding raising dynamics for the Edo-North Senatorial campaigns and the 2023 election victory Strategies.

Eragbe stated that as the Edo North 2023 Senatorial Candidate and National Youth Leader of Labour Party (LP), he pledged free, qualitative and compulsory education for the people of Edo North Senatorial District and Youth involvement in government 2023-2027 through legislative functions during his first tenure in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Eragbe also cited how he led the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Research institutions in Nigeria, ASURI, under a partnership to secure Foreign Direct Investment, FDI in the sum of a hundred and fifty billion Euro (€150 Billion Euro) for Research Institution Funding as loan for rejigging of the National Research & Economic Redirection of Nigeria for the next 30 years with marginal interest rates repayment and moratorium since 2021.

He gave a detailed insight about the political configuration of Edo North Senatorial District that included Seven Local Government Areas that consist of Akoko Edo LGA, Etsako East LGA, Etsako Central LGA, Etsako West LGA,Owan East LGA, Owan West LGA.

Edo-North senatorial district which consists of sixty four (64) political wards, seven hundred and sixty (760) polling units. He gave a vivid strategy in line with his deployment schemes for the Labour Party national mobilization 2023 stating that Nigeria consists of 176,846 polling units, 8,815 political wards, 774 LGAs, 36 States and FCT and Six Geopolitical Zones.

The Edo-North senatorial district campaign structures announced was made up of Prof. Festus A. Uwakhemen as the Director-General, DG of the Comrade Eragbe Anslem 2023 Edo-North Senatorial District Campaign Organisation, #CEA2023-SDCO with six(6) deputy director generals.

Three (3) out of the six(6) Deputy Director General, DDG for the Edo-North Senatorial District Campaign Organization were also unveiled and included:
(i): The Deputy Director General for Etsako Central LGA, Chief Austin Aliu.
(ii): The Deputy Director General, DDG for Etsako West LGA, Prince Mike Inaboya.
(iii): The Deputy Director General, DDG for Orwan East LGA, Comrade Omokhogie Jegede.
(iv): Comrade Uloko Kadiri was appointed as the Edo North Senatorial Leader to oversee the Advisory Board of the Edo-North Senatorial campaign committee structure on behalf of Comrade Eragbe Anslem.

The Deputy Director Generals, DDGs for Akoko Edo LGAs, Etsako East LGA & Orwan West LGA are to be announced during the Edo North Senatorial District Stakeholders Meeting in Auchi, Etsako West LGA subsequently, Eragbe said.

Comrade Eragbe stated that he is at home as resident of the FCT for 32 years now and gave among other reasons why he adopted Abuja for his inaugural stakeholders meeting, as charity they say, begins at home, and that the recognition of reality is beginning of wisdom.

He was emphatic that Edo North senatorial district sons and daughters are critical stakeholders in the FCT when he drew stakeholders attention to the fact that his senatorial election project is their project and that of other Nigerians who are critical stakeholders committed to the OBI-DATTI 2023 election who must be part and parcel of the entire package to mobilize their people across the one hundred and nine (109) Senatorial District, 774 LGAs, 36 states and the FCT.

He welcomed the leadership of all the Support Groups present on the occasion of the stakeholders meeting and those who couldn’t make it to Abuja and explained to them in detail, the concept of the Labour Party National Mobilization Strategy that deploys a website with six(6) portals and the Labour Party-NG Mobile Application for the 2023 general elections.
He also emphasized that these ICT solutions were designed and developed by the office of the National Youth Leader of Labour Party (LP) for the national mobilization of a minimum forty Seven (47,000,000) million eligible voters for the presidential election mandate and votes delivery 2023 that included:
(a): National Mobilization website: https://www.labourpartynationalmobilization.org.ng for support groups and membership registration which will be synchronized with the Labour Party-NG Mobile Application.
(b): Registration of Support Groups and Issuance of registration acknowledgement and Certificates with four (4) unique identification number systems, with over 3,500 registered Support Groups.
(c): Registration of Nigerians with and without PVC and Issuance of Membership Cards with four (4) – six (6) unique ID numbers for the determination of votes delivery to include:

(i): _Presidential Election
(National I.D)
(ii): _Governorship Election
(State I.D)
(iii): _Senatorial,
(iv): MHR,
(v): State Assembly
(State I.D)
(vi):_Ward I.D
(vii):_Polling Unit I.D
(viii):_VIN I.D

(d): Registration of Diaspora Nigerians with and without PVC and Support Groups with issuance of feedback as Membership Card and Support Group Registration Acknowledgement and Certificate.

(e): Registration & Accreditation of Polling Unit Agents for results Collation using the thirty (30) Man Polling Unit Agents and Canvasers structure across the 176,846 polling units in Nigeria to deploy 5,305,380 polling units Mobilization forces for the 2023 general elections

(f) Eragbe opined that with a minimum mobilization factor of three(3) the Labour Party National Mobilization website will be populated with eligible voters in monthly ratios of:

(i): 15,916,140 eligible voters at the end of November, 2022

(ii): 31,832,280 eligible voters at the end of December, 2022.

(iii): 47,748,420 eligible voters at the end of January, 2023

(g): Situation Room for Election Results Collation and display Window.

(h): Deployment of the Labour Party NG-APP Mobile Application and Control Room for Security, Sensitization, Monitoring and Polling Units National Mobilization activities 2023.

Eragbe unveiled the program theme: “Repositioning the Sociopolitical and Economic Landscape of Edo-North Senatorial District 2023-2027 by Legislating from consumption to production”.

Speaking with some journalists on Tuesday in Abuja during a stakeholders meeting in a Media Parley and Press Conference, the Labour Party (LP) Edo North 2023 senatorial candidate thanked the stakeholders for the opportunity given him to acquaint them with his legislative proposals as bills for an Act to engage enabling legislation 2023 that included:

(a): Human capacity development,
(b): industrialization of Edo North Senatorial District,
(c): Provision of Potable water supply,
(d): Improved Educational system with Rebate Fee and Free Education,
(e): Improved Healthcare Delivery System,
(f): Infrastructural Development and Models,
(g): Power: Generation, Transmission & Distribution Systems,
(h): Job creation and opportunities,
(I): Economic Diversification with Strategic options,
(j): Investments & Revenue generation for the individuals, wards, LGAs with Edo-North Senatorial District,
(k): Minerals exploration and exploitation,
(l): Agricultural Mechanization, value chain addition and processes,
(m): Housing Development and Delivery with mortgage repayments,
(n): ICT development, Innovations, Research and Training,
(o): Sport, Entertainment & Engagements,
(p): Pension and Gratuity payments for pensioners and the aged,
(q): Political Reforms
etc.

He disclosed how he had partnered with the Eureka CIRPS, UK through their African representative for human capacity development and job creation for the first batch of five million (5,000,000) Nigerians 2022-2023 through entrepreneurial and MSMEs skill acquisition programs that will be replicated annually from 2023-2027..

Eragbe who was a former Student Union First Executive President of Ahmadu Bello University Students Union Government, ABUSUG, ABU, Zaria 2002-2004 said, that the task at hand today is to Rescue Nigeria from successively failed administrations since 1999 till date, noting that the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi has made it clear why we need to move Nigeria from consumption to production.

During the media parley, Eragbe canvassed reasons why the Youth of Edo North Senatorial District preferred him to Comrade Adams Aliu Oshiomole the former Edo State Govenor and Senator Francis Alimikhena the incumbent Senator Representing Edo North Senatorial District in the National Assembly.

Eragbe noted that though, both men were his father, but that they have also contributed their quota which he appreciated and also respected, but, that they are now old and should voluntarily retire to enable Young Nigerians to begin the process of rebuilding the nation.

He further noted that the old brigade will be retired at the polls in 2023 by the youth who desperately want to take back their country with their creative ingenuity and energies to offer purposeful leadership. Eragbe promised that this new kind of leadership will be provided by himself to Edo North people in particular, while Nigeria in general will enjoy same with Peter Obi as the President 2023.

On the state of the failed economy, Eragbe said that “We need to change the failed revenue sharing formula to production formula, and noting that the era of sharing the national cake is over”. There is no more cake to share, and necessitating the urgency with which we must begin to bake new cakes rather.

Accordingly, Eragbe said that Nigeria is about the most endowed nation on the surface of the planet earth in terms of human resources and natural endowments saying that Nigerians should not have any business with poverty.

Eragbe noted that though, Nigeria has been dubbed the poverty capital of the world as a result of maladministration and lack of effective leadership. The lack of enduring character and the very poor managerial capabilities and capacity of leaders in Nigeria have contributed to the myriad of the socioeconomic and political woes we have found in Nigeria today since 1960.

On this premise, Eragbe said that the Nigeria Labour movement: NLC & TUC and their trade unions came together in very strong terms with eight (8) other political parties to form the Third (3rd) Force which adopted the Labour Party (LP) as the alternative political party to rescue Nigeria and Nigerians 2023 and beyond.

Eragbe therefore said that the Labour party will ensure that education should be free, fair and qualitative and also ensure that we do away with strike actions in our tertiary institutions while health care services and political systems would be stabilized with economic diversification and job creation for the teeming youths.

The high point of the stakeholders meeting culminated in a five hundred million naira (N500,000,000) fund raising program that was unveiled by the Director General of the Comrade Eragbe Anslem 2023 Senatorial Campaign Organization, Professor Festus A. Uwakhemen.

Professor Festus A. Uwakhemen requested 2,000 stakeholders to contribute N250,000 each to realize the five hundred million naira sum needed to prosecute the Edo-North Senatorial election 2023.

The Director General in his acceptance speech earlier, highlighted the qualities that sets Eragbe apart as a visionary leader who possesses the requisite experience and political capital and capacity to deliver on the legislative exigencies that will impact Edo North Senatorial District positively 2023, while also citing age and depth of understanding of national issues as some of the rare qualities possessed by the young senatorial candidate of Edo North senatorial district.

Eragbe noted that Mr Peter Obi was billed to come to Edo State on 11th November, 2022 and urged the good people of the state and particularly Edo North Senatorial District to come out en-mass to welcome the incoming president 2023.

The meeting witnessed participants from different walks of life including the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, National Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, Support Groups Leaders, Labour Party Youth Leaders and opinion moulders