Nigerian youths can significantly impact the outcome of the 2023 elections if they are intentional about what the future means to them. There are instances in other clime when youth influenced electoral outcomes. Perhaps the most well-known is former US President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign and election, which was driven by young people. In another […]
Nigerian youths can significantly impact the outcome of the 2023 elections if they are intentional about what the future means to them. There are instances in other clime when youth influenced electoral outcomes. Perhaps the most well-known is former US President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign and election, which was driven by young people.
INEC recently released the updated voter registration data showing the distribution by age group. The data reveals that 37,060,399 registered voters, constituting 39.65%, are youths between the ages of 18 and 34; 33,413,591 are middle-aged persons between the ages of 35 and 49; 17,700,270 are elderly voters between the ages of 50 and 69, while 5,294,748 are senior citizens aged 70 and above. If you chose 39.65% or 75.
Political candidates recognise the nuisance value of some young people that during elections, the de facto youth leaders are the toast of every candidate, who seeks to mobilise them into dangerous and sinister teams ready to die in doing their bidding of scattering the electoral process or defending it, depending on what their transducers require of them. However, the youth participate less in the most critical aspect of the electoral process itself – voting. Herein lies the conundrum.
What is known is that enthusiasm has been high among the youth since the “EndSARS movement” period, but their political consciousness to drive change is insufficient. This may be disappointing to candidates whose thematic electoral thrust and strategy are to galvanise the youth to vote for them. The youth are still not united by consciousness but mostly by poverty and social malaise in the land.
Because of the fallback affiliation mood, the tendency to vote en bloc is minimal or completely lost, and this is my fear that the youth demographics may mean little afterall. They are incurably fragmented along different lines to the benefit of the orthodoxy, which is not about their interest. And they are not making a demand on the candidates and political parties on issues of concern to them.
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