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In Nigeria today, according to the 2006 national census, 33.6 %( about 47million) of the total population of Nigerians are young people between the ages of 10- 24years. Research carried out recently shows that those who are eligible to register and vote are between the ages 0f 18 and above but the question running through my mind is how many young people are ready to vote, from the field work carried out at Makurdi – Tuylen, young people no longer show interest in casting their vote any longer rather prefer going about for their daily activities rather than wasting their time for the whole day trying to register and during the election unable to vote in their candidates instead the election been rigged by our so called leaders but for how long are we going to continue in this act?
Now is the time as a young person for us to act by encouraging our fellow peers to go out and get registered to vote to see a better Nigeria and to also create a change in our sexual reproductive health as it relates to young people who are affected and infected in one way or the other. Let’s go out and register to be eligible to vote. Our vote is our right.
