The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says young people will determine the nation’s future in the forthcoming election going by records of expected voters.
INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this on Tuesday, in his address at Chatham House, London while giving a breakdown of the voters’ register ahead of the polls.
Yakubu said there are currently 93.4 million registered voters in Nigeria out of which 37 million (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-aged 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.
“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,” adding that over 600,000 eligible voters collected their PVCs in Lagos alone within the last one month.
