Issued in Abuja: 12:00pm, Friday, 9th June 2023
The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room has elected Dr Y.Z Ya’u as its Convener in an election held during its strategy meeting on Thursday, 8thJune 2023. The platform of about 80 organisations also elected two co-conveners.
Dr. Y.Z Yau, a leading and longstanding human rights activist of repute is the Executive Director of Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), based in Kano and was very active in the struggle against military dictatorship in the 1990s. He was one of the alternate chairs of the Situation Room between 2018 to 2020. The newly elected co-conveners are Mimidoo Achakpa of Women Rights to Education Programme (WREP), Abuja and Franklin Oloniju of Life & Peace Development Organisation (LAPDO), Akure.
A new steering committee was also elected representing the six geo-political zones and different thematic areas. Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) continues to be the secretariat.
SIGNED:
Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre
Secretariat
