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Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu Youth Professional Support (BOSYOPS) has resolved to provide palliatives for people, especially at the grassroots to cushion the effects of the economic hardship imposed by the CBN policy on currency redesign, to have food to feed themselves and families.
The group is set to ensure that people are encouraged to come out to vote massively in the Presidential and the National Assembly polls on Saturday.
BOSYOPS, which is supporting the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the re – election of the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo – Olu, is also set to deploy its members across the wards, Local Government and Senatorial Districts in the state to mobilise people to vote.
These are part of the strategies resolved at by coordinators of the group across the state that met at a special session in Ikorodu today, tagged, ‘Coordinators Strategy Session’.
Ms. Abisola Olusanya, the Honourable Commissioner for Agriculture and Lead Coordinator, BOSYOPS, spoke with THE IMPACT after the session.
“The strategy session is for the BOYSOPS coordinators from the Senatorial to the Super Coordinators, to those in the Local Government Areas, ward levels, down to the polling units. We have coordinators across all the senatorial districts in Lagos who are going to participate fully in the elections”, she said.
“The idea behind this is that we have the Presidential and the National Assembly elections, coming up in 25th of February and in two-week time, we will be having the Governorship and the House of Assembly elections, come 11th of March, so, this strategy session is to deploy the best deployment route for getting our people to come out and vote for us”, she added.
Ms. Olusanya said that the intervention of the group became necessary in other not to allow the scarcity of naira to jeopardise Saturday’s election because people are facing severe hardship.
“Right now, with the cash crunch in the economy, things have become more difficult and it can actually affect people coming out to vote. It could hamper the idea around people coming out to vote. It could hamper.what INEC has been propagating all along, in trying to do BVAS and ensure more transparency around elections, just to give people a higher level of comfort that their votes will count.
“With what Is happening now, there is a higher probability that people might not be incentivized enough to come out to vote because the hardshi in the country is too much”.
Speaking on strategy of the group, the Lead Coordinator said that BOSYOPS will be deploying food in a very coordinated manner through its coordinators to support people in the grassroots that are without food which may prevent them from coming out to vote.
“As a group fully supporting Asiwaju (Tinubu), and Babajide Olushola Sanwoolu, the idea is for us to deploy the people at the grassroots level through our coordinators, and ensure that we get people out to vote and to ensure that people are comfortable doing so.
“You have seen the feedback that people have given, there is too much hunger, people don’t have food and people are cash strapped. The idea is about what we can do? We have some food available; we have the BOSYOPS Foodbank. I think t
“In some localities, we may not be able to get food there, but we are looking at a situation where we will get a local caterer to cook, so that people can sit down somewhere to eat and go back home. That way, people would have been fed, not by just coming out on that day and go back home hungry. These are things we are looking at.
“We are thinking of ways to deploy our food in the best way possible and in such a way that the food won’t end up in some few people’s houses. People have suggested ways of doing that. We are going to empower our coordinators so that they can do the house – to – house campaign in a way that is better coordinated and can reach people”.
Commissioner Olusanya also said that the session also afforded the group reiterated its vision and purpose to members, adding that the BOSYOPS real work starts after the general elections.
“It is also to reiterate the vision and purpose of this group which will actually start after the election. We are only doing all these to mobilise. This group is unique and it is ordained. The idea is how to help our people; how to touch people’s lives, and how to communicate the achievements of Mr Babajide Sanwo – Olu in a language that people understand, which are the things we shared here today and for everybody to get to know one another”, she said.
