INEC Plans Mock Voters’ Accreditation, Ahead Of February/March Polls
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) plans to conduct a mock voters’ accreditation of eligible voters ahead of the February/March polls.
The mock accreditation is to be conducted across polling units, to further test the integrity of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) already deployed nationwide.
INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, who announced this on Tuesday at the Chatham House in London, again assured that the 2023 polls would hold as scheduled, despite the continued attacks on electoral facilities.
Yakubu hopes that authorities would check the spate of the attacks on INEC facilities and electoral materials, by further coordination of security agencies.
In the past four years, he said 50 of INEC offices had been attacked, forcing the agency to reconstruct the facilities and replace the destroyed electoral materials.
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Yakubu, however, said that security had been enhanced on some of the INEC facilities in ares prone to attacks.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the 2023 elections belong to young people who make up the bulk of the voting population.
According to Yakubu, 93.4 million registered voters of which 37 million, that is 39.5 percent, are young people between the ages of 18 and 34. Then, there are closely followed by 33.4 million or 36.75 percent middle age voters between 35 and 49. Put together, these two categories constitute 75.39 percent of registered voters in Nigeria,” he said while speaking on ‘Nigeria’s 2023 Elections: Preparations and Priorities for Electoral Integrity and Inclusion’.
“Actually, the 2023 election is the election of the young people because they have the numbers. Even the majority of the PVCs collected are collected by young people. So, out of the 93.4 million registered voters, 70.4 million are between the ages of 18 and 49.”
