2023 Elections: Eight Million Youths Complete Voter Registration – INEC

Over eight million young Nigerians completed the recently concluded Continuous Voter Registration exercise, the Independent National Electoral Commission announced on Monday.

The youth demography has been touted as a major deciding factor in the upcoming elections and INEC’s figures seems to back the theory.

According to INEC, there were 10,487,972 fresh registrants, while 12,298,944 persons completed their registrations.

Of these, 8,784,677 were composed of young people, the commission said.