2019: Youths are critical to achieving a credible election - INEC boss declares

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- INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu says youths are critical to ensuring a credible election in 2019

- He said youths constitute the bulk of voters during election, and they need to take it upon themselves to register, vote and make necessary changes that they all desire

- Yakubu also stated that people who have registered before but changed residence, don’t need to go through the process again, but can simply apply for transfer of their registration

Professor Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged Nigerian youths to live up to expectations and ensure a credible election in 2019.

He made the call in a speech during the Commission’s Campus Outreach at the University of Lagos, Vanguard reports.

NAIJ.com gathers that the INEC boss pointed out that Nigerian youths constitute bulk of electoral officials and voters; and as such, they have a major role to play in determining the outcome of 2019 general elections.

He stated: “We have about 120,000 polling units nationwide, each polling unit is manned by a minimum of four ad-hoc staff and majority of which are youths serving their father land.

“From the 27th of April last year to the 14th of June this year, we registered 9.7 million new voter’s, majority of which are young people.

“These youths also constitute the bulk of voters during election. So, Nigeria youths need to take it upon themselves to register, vote and make necessary changes that they all desire.

“A credible voter’s register is a prelude to free and fair elections. Voter registration helps to facilitate the credibility of the electoral process by preventing multiple voting as each person is only allowed to register once.

“For those that have registered before, but changed residence, you don’t need to go through the process again. All you need to do is to apply for transfer of your registration from your previous location to your current location and at the registration centre close to you.”

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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, said electronic voting will not be used in 2019.

The INEC boss, who also doubles as the president of ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC), however, said that electronics would be deployed in the collation and transmission of elections results.

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