We believe that a strong democracy depends on an informed electorate that understands its rights, embraces its civic responsibilities, and participates meaningfully in shaping the nation’s future.
Our purpose
Information that supports meaningful participation
Our voter education mandate extends across Nigeria’s 36 states, the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and all 774 Local Government Areas. Through community engagement and public awareness campaigns, we seek to make electoral information accessible to citizens from every background. Our programmes teach voters about electoral processes, the importance of their votes, and their role in promoting peaceful, credible, and inclusive elections.
At CLAI, we mobilize eligible citizens to fulfil their civic responsibilities by participating actively in elections. We work to address voter apathy by helping people understand the connection between electoral participation, accountable leadership, and community development. Through sustained enlightenment and outreach, we encourage citizens to see voting as a meaningful opportunity to influence decisions that affect their everyday lives.
How it all started
CLAI’s Journey: From a Single Desk to the Global Stage:
Citizens Liberation Advocacy Initiative (CLAI) is an electorate representative body essentially came on board as a child of necessity to building a strong society, fuel electoral awareness in the country, and also to re-engineer the interest of the people towards promoting good governance in a democratic setting.
Notably, CLAI, a Non-Governmental Organization; non-profit making venture is neither affiliated to any political party nor sympathetic to any individual politicians, but simply stands as a watch-dog and also leads the vanguard for enforcement of credible leadership in Nigeria.
CLAI is purely an independent body that serves as a rally point for the entire Nigerian electorate, a catalyst to solving among other perennial problems in Nigeria.
CLAI began operation since 2007 but was formally registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Abuja on the 28th of January 2013; with Reg. no: CAC/IT/NO. 59280.
Our Projection for the Future
Due to the importance our organization attached to this exercise of the nation building and deepening democracy and enthroning credible leadership in the country.
As a first step in our mobilization process, we are targeting about 60 million electorates by the year 2030 with operation 1+1 to 500 per polling booth. We have commenced mass mobilization in all the 36 states including FCT Abuja.
And all the 36 States as been coded, and all the 174,000 polling booths in Nigeria have been computerized. We have been mobilizing and registering the electorates through each of the polling booths of the federation with a Data Base System. (DBS)
Our Structures Stated as follows:
The Board of Trustees (BoT)
National Executive Council (NEC)
National Working Committee (NWC)
National Directors
State Co-ordinators
LGA Co-ordinators
Co-ordinators in each polling booths
Membership
Membership is open to adults from 18 years and above; they must be Nigerians by nationality. They must also share in our vision for radical change irrespective of sex, creed, religion or tribe.
The organization membership is fast and steadily growing with more patriotic Nigerians joining free of charge and before anybody is accepted as a member, compulsorily, he/she must have INEC voter’s card.
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) Headquarters, Abuja has endorsed our programme to work together throughout the 36 states of the federation.
Our Aims & Objectives:
- To act as a rally point for voters and defender of the electorate.
- To ensure that the electorates are accorded respect and recognition.
- To teach, educate and promote public awareness/enlightenment campaign programmes on voting rights throughout the federation.
- To orientate, sensitize and mobilize the electorate on their civic responsibilities.
- To create awareness amongst the youths on the need for good democratic values.
- To organize Conferences, Summits, Seminars, Public lectures, workshops and road shows to draw the attention of Nigerians to their civic responsibilities before, during and after elections.
- To render selfless services and re-kindle national political consciousness and a deep sense of patriotism.
Scope Of Operation (Our Activities Past/Present):
To halt the perennial apathy during elections, we have lined up series of activities for the grass-roots mobilization of the citizenry and public enlightenment campaign programmes on civic/voters education, ensuring massive turnouts during elections. Some of the activities are as follows:
- Production and Distribution of about 50 million copies of a book: Entitled: Road Map to Nation Building.
- Catch them young programmes which target educational institutions both secondary schools & higher institutions to teach about elections, leadership and others.
- Kick against voter apathy – Public enlightenment campaign programme with (Faith Based Organizations), Churches/Mosques, Traditional institutions, Voluntary bodies, etc.
- 60 minutes with the electorates. TV / Radio Programmes.
- National Electoral Summits in the 6 geo-political zones including FCT, Abuja.
- To produce a documentary on past/present elections and lessons to be drawn thereof.
- Capacity building courses for BoT/Directors, members of the organization in Nigeria and Abroad.
Our Core Values
Re-inventing our collective purpose.
Changing the mindset of Nigerians.
Participating fully in mobilizing the entire Nigerian electorate.
Serving as the voice of the voiceless.
Innovation and creativity.
To bring about peaceful co-existence of all citizens.
Our Vision
To serve as medium for the upliftment of the social and political emancipation of a wide spectrum of the Nigerian society.
Our Mission
To promote genuine revival/re-awakening of a patriotic orientation for a virile society where peace and justice shall reign.