{"id":4867,"date":"2021-07-26T15:19:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T15:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2021-07-26T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T15:19:30","slug":"woman-activist-advocates-voter-education-to-curb-apathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=4867","title":{"rendered":"Woman Activist Advocates Voter Education To Curb Apathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A female lawyer and rights activist, Barrister Eyitope Success-Adekunle, took a critical look at the weekend\u2019s council poll in Lagos State and expressed the need for voter education in the country to prevent apathy in the future elections, saying, it is discouraging seeing eligible voters shunning that vital aspect of democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The concerned activist, who is the leader of\u00a0 a non-governmental organization (NGO), Women for Change Initiatives (WCI), in an interactive session with the media at the weekend in Lagos said, \u201chaving gone round substantial parts of the state monitoring the election, it was discovered that, shunning election sometimes is borne out of ignorance and lack of the basic knowledge of th importance of the exercise.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The legal practitioner however realised during her interaction with the people that, they are contented with the good work Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu is doing in the state, insisting however that, \u201cthey should have come out more to assert that belief in Sanwo-Olu via overwhelming votes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Woman Leader was of the conviction that, the people of the state are enjoying the good work of their governor and are very sure that, whether all of them come out to vote or nor, greater percentage of those who came out would surely give Sanwo-Olu\u2019s party their votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A female lawyer and rights activist, Barrister Eyitope Success-Adekunle, took a critical look at the weekend\u2019s council poll in Lagos State and expressed the need for voter education in the country to prevent apathy in the future elections, saying, it is discouraging seeing eligible voters shunning that vital aspect of democracy. \u00a0 The concerned activist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3078,561,3082,3081,3007],"class_list":["post-4867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-lg-election","tag-lg-poll","tag-vote-apathy","tag-voter-education","tag-woman-activist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4868,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions\/4868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}