The Utan Youth Movement. It is a good development seeing that Utan is a geographical area in Jos North part of Jos metropolis. It is welcoming and also very nice.

UTAN YOUTH MOVEMENT


UTAN ELECTION.

This election is the first of its kind in the history of Utan. It was held in Rockland College field Utan on the 2²nd of July, 2017. It saw a large crowd as people of Utan came out in mass.

Some media personnel from RepNaijaTV were present to interview some people.

• Mr Samuel Emmanuel gave an appraisal to the Elcom for the courage. He stated that the election was peaceful. It is a welcoming idea and it will give a voice to Utan, as there would be people that can represent Utan as a community in the local and state level. 

• Miss Blessing said it is a wonderful thing to see the youth coming together to vote despite the age, social and cultural differences. She further stated her grievances about not being able to cast vote because of the time and weather, but wwished good luck to whoever wins.

• Mr M. Vilong (Holy Pikin) said he was excited about the election because it is a way of unifying the youth in Utan community. He said the election process was bit late because the sun was heating people and it is not easy standing for long in the sun. He further said there was shortage of ballot papers and many others complained about it and it was not really encouraging but since it's the first time, it is pardonable.

• Mr JP said on his part, he was excited and came as early as 5:30am, as the voting was supposed to start by 7am, but he was disappointed as he stood till 11am and still wasn't able to vote because of lack of inadequate preparation. He said he was getting discouraged but as people say, "Change begins with You", he had to be patient and wait to vote.

• Anonymous said the election process was slow and based on assumption because lots of people didn't get chance to cast vote. He also said the electoral committee didn't prepare well because it is better to have excess ballot paper than to have insufficient ones. The process was not very satisfying to him personally. He further stated that the accreditation should have been done a day before the election so that time would not be a problem and the number of accredited people would have been gotten so that the ballot paper would have been sufficient to go round.

The election saw a large crowd as usual of Utan community, and there were no riot of any sort. The voting ended by a few minutes to 2pm and the counting of votes started 
The weather at first was cool aside from the heat of the sun, but a little drizzle occurred just after the voting process, and many people were happy that the rain didn't interfere with the process. God bless Utan

Utan = Unity and Progress.

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