The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has said that with the commitment and vigilance of Nigerian youths, nobody will be able to rig the 2019 general elections in the country.

He stated this on Thursday while receiving a delegation of the national, zonal and state youth leaders of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in his Abuja office.

Ekweremadu assured the delegation that the PDP will not be intimidated from holding the current government accountable for any anomalies in the polls, just as it will continue to speak the truth always, in defence of the nation’s democracy.

In a statement issued by his media aide, Uche Anichukwu, Senator Ekweremadu also warned Nigerian youths against indulging in any form of electoral violence as according to him, it was an evil that does no one any good.

“Nobody should be deceived that they will rig elections in 2019. The international community will also be watching; and like the late Sam Mbakwe said, ‘if you are awake, the rat will never take your fish.’ So if we shine our eyes, nobody will rig us out.

“I’m sure some of you are now conversant with the misrepresentation of my statement on the floor of the Senate last week where I cautioned against brigandage, impunity and carnage; and I said as leaders and politicians, we must do the correct thing before we endanger our democracy. That was what I said.

“Never bother about their propaganda. We will continue to speak the truth. We will continue to defend our democracy and urge our leaders to always do the right thing.

“Sometimes we may be misunderstood, but we will remain unrelenting. It was the great Nnamdi Azikiwe who said that the best judge of human conduct is conscience. Keep saying the right thing. The person you are speaking to is hearing you; someday his conscience will prick him and he will do the right thing,” Ekweremadu said.