The Ekiti State Director of the City Boys Movement, Mr. Oluwafemi Kasali, has disclosed that the movement would actively liaise with local leaders and youth networks to ensure widespread engagement and a strong turnout at the polls.
Kasali, who gave this hint during a visit to Governor Biodun Oyebanji at his Ikogosi Ekiti country home, also boasted that the movement is poised to use the 2026 Governorship Poll in Ekiti to prove a point.
He said the movement would actively liaise with local leaders and youth networks to ensure widespread engagement and a strong turnout at the polls.
The movement expressed profound appreciation to the Governor for his support and for consistently creating platforms that empower young people to thrive and contribute meaningfully to the development of the state.
Kasali also expressed the readiness of the movement to embark on door-to-door sensitization and mobilisation campaigns across the state for the re-election of the Governor and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
He assured the Governor that the movement would use the forthcoming governorship election in the state to demonstrate its strength, unity, and mobilization capacity across wards and pulling units to ensure that the Governor becomes the first in the country to win in all polling units.
In his remarks, the governor charged the movement to intensify grassroots mobilisation across wards and polling units in the state for the re-election bid of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
He also charged the group to take the campaign to the people at the unit level, stressing that elections are won through strategic engagement at the grassroots.
The Governor assured them that his government would stand solidly by the movement, provide necessary encouragement and support to ensure its success, as well as the realization of its goals.
“In your speech, you spoke about the mandate of the movement which is to get vote for our party and the leader of the party, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and getting the vote is not a tea party, that is the truth, to get vote in Ekiti where people don’t come out naturally to vote, we have to look at our tactics and strategies.
“The foundation of victory for any election is at the unit level, so, if we are going to get the votes, then we must be connected to the voters and you don’t get to the voters by rallies but by identifying with the people, have a connection with them, talk to them- do they have issues, do they have concerns about government policies- and get it resolved before the day of the election,” Oyebanji said
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