The chairman of the Independent National Electoral
Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has said that the 2023 general election
is an election for the young people in Nigeria.
Giving a breakdown of voter registration and collection of
Permanent Voter Cards in Nigeria at his address at Chatham House, London,
Tuesday afternoon, Yakubu said records on the ground showed that the election
would be dominated by the Nigerian youth.
Yakubu, who said he was encouraged by the turn-out of
registered voters to collect their PVCs, said over 600,000 eligible voters
collected their PVCs in Lagos alone within the last one month.
The INEC boss stated that there are currently 93.4 million
registered voters in Nigeria out of which 37 million, that is 39 per cent, are
young people between the ages of 18 and 34.
“And then they’re
closely followed by 33.4 million or 35.3 per cent middle-age voters between the
ages of 35 and 49.
“Put together, these two categories constitute 75.39 per
cent of registered voters in Nigeria. So, actually the 2023 election is the
election of the young people, because they have the numbers. Even the majority
of the PVCs collected are collected by young people,” Yakubu added.
“So, out of the 93.4 million, 70.4 million registered voters
are between the ages of 18 and 49,” Yakubu stated.
He reminded the audience that the collection of the PVCs
would end on January 29, adding that “we have to end it because before the
election we will publish number of PVCs collected on polling unit by polling
unit basis nationwide.”
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