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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