Youth Leaders of the North West zone of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have expressed concerns over massive Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) uncollected in the office of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) mostly by youths in the zone.
The leadership therefore, held a closed door meeting to map out effective strategies to address the challenge in the zone.
Briefing Journalists shortly after the meeting, Zonal youth leader, Abdulhamid Umar Mohammed said the zone cannot afford to lose votes of the youths because they constituted 25 percent of the voting population in the zone.
“We are calling on the youths to go and collect their PVCs because a lot of PVCs, from INEC statistics belong to the youths. We know the number of them that have collected and those that have not collected.
Abdulhamid Umar Mohammed said the leadership have thought it wise to create awareness to ensure that the youths collect the PVCs because the importance of the forthcoming elections to Youths in the country.
“Everybody knows the importance of the youths in an election because they form 75 percent of the voting population across the country and 25 percent in the North west.
“Before now youths in the country were used for thuggery, but we are grateful to APC government for making sure that youths are engaged in political activities without being used as thugs.
“We appreciate the APC leaders in the zone for political importance attached to youth. Each and everyone knows the vital roles youths played during the last general elections which gave victory to APC throughout the country.
“Therefore, we will continue to mobilise the youths in the zone towards committing themselves to ensure that APC wins the elections again in 2023”. Mohammed said.
Cover/Shindong Bala