{"id":12364,"date":"2023-02-23T08:17:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T08:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12364"},"modified":"2023-02-23T08:17:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T08:17:28","slug":"the-clarion-call-by-joseph-i-babatunde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12364","title":{"rendered":"The Clarion Call By Joseph I. Babatunde"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe general election is not an organizational exercise – it’s a mass media exercise.\u201d –\u00a0<\/span>Roger Stone<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In agreement with the quote of Stone, election is a collective responsibility of every citizen to participate easily.<\/span><\/p>\n

The situations in the country presently have not really been so encouraging, even though the general election is very near. Election is the process of choosing a new leader to lead a particular set of people in a particular geographical area of land. However, in the case of Nigeria, \u00a0after the 1960 independence, \u00a0it has been so necessary for us to have elections in Nigeria, whereby we elect new leaders \u2013 President, \u00a0Governors, Chairmen, Counsellors, as far as the country is concerned. \u00a0The year 2023 has been slated for election and the situations around have been indicating this.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, the National University Commission (NUC) obeyed the instruction of the Federal government by instructing the University \u00a0Vice Chancellors to shut down the Higher \u00a0Institutions across the country in a bid to make sure that everyone exercise their franchise (right to vote). A period of three weeks break has been given accordingly. And as a result of that, different universities across the country have been adhering to the instructions as given, so that the students can obey the Clarion Call accordingly.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, \u00a0the situation of \u201cno cash\u201d has not been making things hard for these students to even travel home. \u00a0As if that is not enough, the transporters have been increasing the transportation fee and it is not even fair enough. Even though the fuel has been so scarce, however, the transport fare during the real scarcity was even so low compared to the ones we have now as the election is drawing near. How are the transporters helping the students and other stakeholders who are travelling to obey the Clarion Call? The \u201cinhuman\u201d act on the part of the transporters is not supposed to be. If there is any sector that should encourage the students to go home and vote, \u00a0it should be the transportation sector. But the reverse is the case. The students are really traveling to exercise their franchise, but at the sight of students at the car park, \u00a0the price increases. If we must birth a new Nigeria, \u00a0we should all contribute our quota by encouraging the students and other stakeholders accordingly to vote and to obey the Clarion Call.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am using this medium to call on the transporters from every state of the country, Nigeria, \u00a0let this be real mass media exercise and let\u2019s make it a reality and desist from increasing the transportation price \u201cinhumanly\u201d, so that people who are willing to travel to vote will not find it difficult to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a9 2023<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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