Izuchukwu Okosi
Investment banker and Entrepreneur per excellence Chief Atedo Peterside has unequivocally challenged youths to go for their PVCs ahead of the 2023 general elections stating that it is unfashionable for youths not to believe in the electoral process.
Peterside was guest of Arise News on Thursday on the Morning Show and spoke to the crew on what he thought should be the mindset of Nigeria’s enlightened Nigerian youths.
“It’s slowly becoming unfashionable for youths not to have voter cards,” Peterside told the Arise crew as he responded to questions on youth participation in the upcoming elections.
“The vision then was to attack the voter apathy to see that we can get the youths.
“It has become highly fashionable for highly educated youths to look you in the face and say ‘I have no voters card,’ I won’t vote in the elections, ‘I don’t give a damn,’ the votes don’t count anyway’. So it has become fashionable. That’s what trending today.
“Now it’s their colleagues telling them ‘don’t be silly. Go and get your voter cards. This is the chance to get our voices heard.
“I have been to meetings that after talking, you ask all the youths, highly educated youths ‘do you have voters’ cards?
“Almost half the room raised their hands saying they just registered online or they have their voter cards and they raised their hands proudly and almost defiantly that they are ready for the elections.
Peterside is the founder of the Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, ANAP Business Jets Limited and the Atedo Foundation.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
