Youths constitute majority of 9.7M newly registered voters ―INEC chairman

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Mahmoud Yakubu, INEC Chairman

THE Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu has expressed that the youths constituted the majority of the 9.7 million newly registered voters between the 27th of April, 2017 and 14th of June, 2018.

 

This he disclosed at the Campus Outreach organised by the Commission in commemoration of Europe Day at the University of Lagos, Akoka in Lagos.

While speaking, Professor Mahmood said that proper elections cannot be conducted in the country without the young people.

He explained that there are 120,000 polling units nationwide and each polling unit is manned by a minimum of four ad-hoc staff on the election day, who are young people that have graduated from the country’s tertiary institutions and are serving the country on the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

“We also make use of students from tertiary…



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