With 24 days to Nigeria’s Presidential Election, the Presidential Campaign Council of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC has launched an app named “Thinking Caps”.
The app is aimed at informing young Nigerians of the achievements and potentials of the APC Presidential Candidate, Mr. Bola Tinubu and his running mate Kashim Shettima, as well as educate them on the actions of other Presidential candidates contesting the election.
Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, the Campaign Council’s Director of Strategic Communications, Mr. Mohammed Idris explained that the “Thinking Caps” will also have a quiz feature which will be aimed at educating youths on different matters and winners of the quiz will get a reward.
Mr. Idris added that the app which also has a newsfeed and gallery features has the capacity to engage 93.4 million registered users.
“The demographic analysis of our population shows that the youth aged 35 and below constitute over 60% of our population. It means Nigeria is a very young country – too young to know that there was a world without computers and GSM phones, not to talk of internet and social media. As far as these youth are concerned, End-SARS protest was the biggest civil disobedience and fight for citizens’ rights that has ever happened.
“They cannot understand what the older population mean when they talk about military rule and how rights and privileges of citizens were curtailed. They have no idea that some people came face to face with gun-wielding soldiers and some paid the supreme price fighting for democracy.
“They are not familiar with what it means to be pro-democracy activists, and the sacrifices they made that culminated in the democracy we enjoy today.
“So, it suffices to say if 60% of our population did not witness these events and have no knowledge about them, they are not able to make informed choice amongst the front-runners in this race, with particular reference to the candidature of Asiwaju Tinubu.
“This is where the “Thinking Caps” app comes in, to bridge this knowledge gap amongst the Gen Z and millennials and rally majority of this demography behind the Tinubu-Shettima ticket.
“When we say Tinubu’s Lagos for instance, they wonder what we mean, when they were either unborn or too young to know the hitherto decrepit nature of Oshodi, Mushin, Obalende, Ojuelegba, CMS, amongst others.
“They don’t know what Lekki was or the existential threat that Victoria Island faced because of the ocean surge. They have no idea of the state of the Lagos infrastructure or the general quality of life of Lagosians before Tinubu became Governor, same way they have no idea about the great achievements of Sen. Kashim Shettima as Governor of an insurgency-ridden Borno State.
“We have a responsibility to fill this knowledge gap and educate this critical demography with facts about our opponents. This app educates the youths about the 16 years of misrule under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). With the launch of the app today, we are poised to uniquely tell our story and market our candidate as the best amongst the rest.
“With 24 days to the elections, the time to convince the electorate to secure an emphatic victory cannot be more auspicious. “The Thinking Caps” is our innovation to get this done so that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu can install “Renewed Hope” to the benefit of all Nigerians.”
He expressed hope that the app would lead young Nigerians to vote for the APC Presidential Candidate.
Mr. Idris said that the Think Caps application is on playstore and app store.
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