By Abdallah el-Kurebe
A coalition of 82 youth groups in Sokoto state on Wednesday endorsed the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan for his second term of office.
The groups endorsed Jonathan and Namadi Sambo at a PDP town-hall meeting and flag-off of non-violence campaign, which were organized by the Directorate of Youth Mobilization of the party’s Presidential campaign organization.
PDP National Youth Leader, Abdullahi Maibasira said that is not the culture of the PDP to engage in violence or any act that is capable of dividing the country.
“The PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan in particular believe in the sanctity of human life,” he said adding that elections should not be for selfish interests but for peace and national development.
“The youth should therefore shun all acts of violence, collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) and should come out and vote Jonathan, as well as PDP candidates, at all levels in February’s general polls,” Maibasira said.
The party’s Youth Leaders in Sokoto and Zamfara states, Alhaji Aliyu Gidan-Kanawa and Yusuf Alhassan called on Nigerians to avoid the use religious or ethnic affinity during electioneering.
