{"id":8985,"date":"2022-06-12T06:26:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T06:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8985"},"modified":"2022-06-12T06:26:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T06:26:53","slug":"if-you-vote-it-will-count-inec-assure-youths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8985","title":{"rendered":"If You Vote, It Will Count\u2026 INEC Assure Youths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has assured youths that if they get their PVCs and vote in the coming elections, their votes would count.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, gave the assurance on Saturday, the final day of the \u2018Youth Vote Count 2.0\u2019 mega concert it organised in Lagos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to Yakubu, \u201cWe have heard your requests loud and clear. You will soon hear from us on extension of CVR registration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cPlease, assure me that you will register, pick your PVCs and vote. I also assure you that your vote will count.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The concert, held at Tafawa Balewa Square, is part of INEC\u2019s awareness campaign to mobilise youths for the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The concert had popular stars, such as Omawunmi and Waje, performing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The campaign was in collaboration with the EU Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria (EU-SDGN) and the Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth and Advancement (YIAGA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Credit: <\/span><span class=\"s2\">\ud83d\udcf8<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> Twitter \/\/ INEC<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has assured youths that if they get their PVCs and vote in the coming elections, their votes would count. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, gave the assurance on Saturday, the final day of the \u2018Youth Vote Count 2.0\u2019 mega concert it organised in Lagos. According to Yakubu, \u201cWe have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5201,5203,113,1441,1442,5202,3634],"class_list":["post-8985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cvr","tag-eu-sdgn","tag-inec","tag-pvc","tag-vote","tag-yiaga","tag-youths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8987,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions\/8987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}