Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Youth Initiative For Advocacy, Growth And Advancement (YIAGA) says it will Deploy 3034 Observers for the 2019 general elections.
Project Coordinator, YIAGA Watching The Vote, Working Group, Cynthia Mbamalu in an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP said “we will be deploying 3034 observers so we will have observers in every local government”
She said for the purpose of the election, ” We have recruited 822 long term observers, 48 for the 36 states, with some states having more than one because of their sizes and population”.
“These 822 have started working already and they will also recruit the observers for 2019.
“We have one supervisor per local government and what they do is follow up issues on political parties and their activities in their local governments and send in report, we do violence monitoring to help us feed an early warning system and to also identify what INEC is doing and share reports on INECs preparations to local…
