When the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, told the world that the 2023 elections in Nigeria may be postponed or cancelled, we all felt depressed. Many people must have wondered what may happen next? Will the Buhari government and the governments of the states get an unconstitutional extension of their tenure? Will there be a […]
When the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, told the world that the 2023 elections in Nigeria may be postponed or cancelled, we all felt depressed. Many people must have wondered what may happen next? Will the Buhari government and the governments of the states get an unconstitutional extension of their tenure? Will there be a…
That announcement became a major talking point at various places where people gather to run their mouths. But Yakubu is not to blame. He was not making a false alarm. He was simply expressing his feelings on the state of affairs concerning INEC and the elections. Before now he had been assuring Nigerians of INEC’s preparedness for the elections. That was before some unknown but unpatriotic persons started bombing INEC’s offices and destroying its assets.
As part of its readiness for the elections INEC has extended the last date for the collection of PVCs to the end of this month. It has also released the final list of registered voters for the 2023 elections. It is also making a big push for those who are yet to collect their PVCs to do so before the end of the month. It is also taking the PVCs to places that are closer to the registered persons. The media and INEC should mount a multi-media enlightenment campaign for the collection of PVCs.
Youths in the age bracket 18 to 34 constitute 39.65% of the registered voters, while middle-aged persons 35 to 49 years of age constitute 18.94% of the registered voters. The two groups taken together constitute about 58.59% of the registered voters. The large portion of the 133 million persons that are regarded as multi-dimensionally poor appears to come from these two groups. They are the educated but unemployed; the uneducated and unemployed; the educated and underemployed.
The university lecturers represented by their trade union, ASUU, have shut down the universities for eight straight months, something that has never happened in the history of this country. Even though they have now called off the strike the matter is still hanging fire because the government has refused to pay them for the period they were on strike. They are threatening to take the matter up in court.
This election is not only about today. It is also about tomorrow. The government of President Muhammadu Buhari will go away on May 29 leaving a huge debt of about N77 trillion for the government that is to take over. That means that Nigeria’s future is mortgaged.
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