The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that youths formed the highest number of registered voters who would vote in the February and March elections.
INEC’s national commissioner in charge of information and the chairman of the voter’s education committee, Festus Okoye stated this during the commission’s engagement with identified groups on the role of the youth ahead of the 2023 general election.
Okoye said from INEC’s records, the youth held all the aces to determine the outcome of the 2023 elections.
He said out of a total of 9,518,756 valid newly registered voters between 28 June 2021 and 31 July 2022, those aged between 18 and 34 years of age were 7,286,871, representing 76.56 per cent.
Okoye said the total number of registered voters for the general election was 93.5 million, out of which 48 million are youths, which included males and females, representing 51 per cent of eligible voters.
He, therefore, urged the youths to ensure that they cast their votes on election day, emphasising that it is only when they do so that they would determine who would lead them.
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