The Buhari/Osinbajo Hope Movement (BOHM) has started training of election people it called ‘Next Level’ volunteer canvassers in preparation for the 2019 general elections.
The group, said to be working to secure 50 million votes for the re-election President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, stated that the training of zonal officers and community head teams of the group had commenced.
According to Seyi Bamigbade, the group’s national coordinator, the three-day intensive training would put participants through the mill of the ‘Next Level’ canvassing methodology, including how to mobilise more people for the group’s community meetings and pre-election canvassing.
He disclosed that a conglomerate of organisations, including the National Image Institute (NII), Search for Decent Election and Canvassers Agent Foundation International, facilitated the training.
Bamigbade added: “The pre-election observation seeks to ensure all citizens have their permanent voter cards (PVCs) on pre-election electoral activities from all 774 local government areas in Nigeria.
“Participants at the training included the Local Platform Officers (LPOs) and the Volunteer Canvassers teams who will in turn take up the training to their immediate State Coordinating Committees (ISCCs), made up of the 37 State Coordinators (SCs) and 111 State Deputy Coordinators (SDCs).”
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Bamigbade said the training was important as it focused on the people that would train those who would work on the field. This, according to him, was very critical to the overall success of the project.
He added: “Through the BOHM Next Level Canvassers, non-partisan citizen volunteer canvassers will be eventually deployed as representatives at polling units across the country to report on the opening, accreditation, voting and counting processes during elections as well as collect voting results.
“This means that our volunteer canvassers will be deployed to local government areas in the same proportion as there are polling units located in each local government area.”
