Professor Kingsley Mogahlu who vied for the Presidential seat under the Young Progressive Party (YPP) in the just concluded election, has expressed his disappointment about the poor participation of Nigerian youths.
Moghalu made such negative remarks when he was invited to a Channels TV programme, Politics Today.
He emphasized how regrettable it was that a huge number of the young population did not go to polling units to vote on election days.
The professor stated, “The biggest disappointment was with the youths. The youth vote was absent. They make a lot of noise, they rant and rail but you will not see them on the voting day. And when they vote, they don’t vote in line with their rhetoric.”
Speaking on the overall assessment and success of the elections, Moghalu who compared the 2019 elections to that of 2015, explained that disputes and irregularities occurred on a larger scale in the last election, pointing to the implications of postponing the election hours before the originally scheduled date.
“The organisational efficiency and effectiveness of the election was generally weak. We saw it. First, it was postponed at the last minute and in many parts of the country, there was chaos at the polling booths especially in rural areas,” he said.
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