“In 2014, the Commission in collaboration with youth organizations conceptualized the idea of identifying from the entertainment industry, the media and outstanding youth influencers, while commissioning them as voter education youth ambassadors”.
-Professor Mahmood Yakubu, INEC Chairman
For instance, come 2023 presidential elections, Nigerian voters will be faced with the hard choices to make amongst the candidates with different political pedigrees to count on.
Interestingly, INEC has in recent years taken some steps notches higher with the enactment of the Electoral Act 2022, the Continuous Voter Registration exercise which was devolved to the 8,809 Wards or Registration Area Centers across the country. Strengthening all of these are hi-tech innovations including the INEC Elections Results Viewing Portal , the INEC Voter Enrollment Device and the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System .
Another critical issue to frontally confront is that of brazen vote trading and buying. It was reported during the FCT Area Council Elections and the governorship election held in Ekiti state in 2022. Such electoral malfeasance violates the ethics of voting right. It disenfranchises the choice of the voters, as otherwise more credible candidates are prevented from emerging as the people’s choices.
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