President Goodluck Jonathan has enjoined corps members who will be engaged in the 2015 general elections to exert a high sense of patriotism in the discharge of the national assignment.
Speaking at a special exhibition of arts and crafts floated by Batch C of the National Youth Service Corps members posted to Plateau State in Jos on Saturday, the President also urged them to resist any temptation of anybody using them to subvert the elections.
Jonathan, who was represented by his Senior Special Assistant on Youth and Student Matters, Jude Imagwe, at the event which took place simultaneously in all NYSC camps across the country, informed that as youths and future leaders, permitting their being used to rig elections meant that they would also be mortgaging their future.
Imagwe also used the opportunity of his visit to the Plateau State capital to inaugurated the youth campaign office of a Peoples’ Democratic Party governorship aspirant, Senator Gyang Pwajok.
Speaking before the inauguration, he said, “You know that some of you will be used as polling officers during the next election. My advice is that the future belongs to you and therefore, you must avoid being used by any politician or anybody to do anything that would subvert the system.
“You must not do anything that would mortgage your conscience. That election is an important national assignment, therefore you must approach it with all the seriousness that it requires,” the presidential aide added.
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