The National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) has said its corp members will not participate in the supplementary elections in Etche and parts of Omuma Local Government Areas of Rivers State.
Rivers State NYSC Coordinator, Omotayo Adewoye said this during the stakeholders meeting at the Rivers State Police Command in Port Harcourt.
Omotayo said; “Remember a partnership agreement was signed between INEC and the NYSC.
“Now, when we were called upon to feature in this election I had to contact my boss, the Director-General of NYSC and the advice I have received is that because of the violence that was recorded during the last election in which case our corp members were at the receiving end of assault from their politicians, we may not be able to vouch for their security this time around.
“I have the letter already on table indicating interested corps members that want to participate in the election because some of them have shown interest.
“Therefore, we have advised them to go for the training but we are not going to release our corp members except we get an approval from the DG.
“However, any corp member who enrolls himself for the election without approval from the authorities is on his own,”.
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