C’River: APC Lobby Group Targets Youths Ahead 2023 Presidential Election
Ita Akpan
Calabar
The Lobby Group of the All Progressive Congress, APC is expected to bring about 30,000 young people together to brainstorm them on the way forward ahead of 2023 general elections.
The event is scheduled to take place at the N.U.J. Esuene International Stadium, Calabar on 19th Febuary, 2023.
The conference will offer the participant the chance to reflect on how the state Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade has been embarking upon to engage the youth in governance since assuming office in 2015.
Addressing the journalists in a press conference on Wednesday in Calabar in preparation for the conference, the chairman of the Local Organizing Committee, Mr Oden Ewa, maintained that the conference, which is schedule to take place on 19th February, 2022, will also usher in the new national lobby group formed by the All Progressive Congress with the mandate to engage youths in governance.
In his word, the chairman said, “The group mandate is to lobby the stakeholders in all the tiers of the government to fashion out ways on how to get more youths involved in governance”