Eight million youths complete voter registration

Ahead of the 2023 elections, over eight million young Nigerians have completed the recently concluded Continuous Voter Registration exercise, the Independent National Electoral Commission announced on Monday.

The youth population is believed to be a major deciding factor in the upcoming elections and INEC’s figures seems to back the theory.

According to INEC, there were 10,487,972 fresh registrants, while 12,298,944 persons completed their registrations.

Of these, 8,784,677 were composed of young people, the commission said.