Following a decline in youth candidacy for the 2023 general elections, the European Union (EU) Ambassador to Nigeria, Samuela Isopi has warned against the dire consequences of excluding youths from political participation and decision-making.
Isope who spoke on Wednesday in Abuja at a two-day conference for 150 young legislative candidates across the country, organised by Yiaga Africa regretted that young people were being excluded from power worldwide despite having a population of about 1.2 billion, aged between 15 and 24.
Presenting a report titled Youth Candidacy in the 2023 Elections, Executive Director, Yiaga Africa, Samson Itodo, regretted that findings indicated a decline of youth candidacy from 34 per cent in the 2019 general elections to 28 per cent in the 2023 general elections. According to him, the total number of young candidates is 4,398 and the total number of young candidates is 15,336 which represents 28.6 per cent.
The geographical classification of the young candidates by gender reveals that the North West has the largest representation of male candidates and South East has the lowest. In contrast, the South West has the largest representation of female young candidates, North Central and North East have the least. In general, there is a higher representation of female candidates in the South than in the North.
“Political parties nominated more youth candidates for legislative elections at the state level than executive or national assembly seats. For instance, State Assembly elections and House of Representatives elections recorded a high level of youth candidacy. 35.6% of candidates of the State Assembly are youth, 21.6% for the House of Reps and only 3.7% of candidates in the Senatorial elections are youth.
“With respect to the young female candidates, the ADC , AA , and APM have the highest number of young female candidates. While the APC and PDP have the lowest number of young female candidates. “Any meaningful reform of party funding or campaign funding should deliver the following four key outcomes; first, limit the influx of unregulated money in the political process; secondly, enhance the capacity of political parties on resource mobilization and maintenance of proper account of financial transactions and assets register; thirdly, strengthen INEC’s capacity to monitor and ensure compliance with political finance regulations and; fourth explore new pathways of candidate selection...
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