The Zikist-Aminu Kano Patriots (ZAP), has commended President Muhammadu Buhari and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the golden opportunity provided to youths to vote massively in the forthcoming general elections.

ZAP also commended Buhari and Prof Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC National Chairman, and his INEC team, for their commitment and preparedness for the general elections.

The Secretary of ZAP, Dr Steve Igweze, told newsmen in Enugu on Sunday that the sequence of these events had rekindled the confidence of millions of ZAP members nationwide on the electoral process.

According to Igweze, they cherish the opportunity the holidays offered to the undergraduates to massively participate and decide who presides over the affairs of the country for the next four years, so as to avoid mass exodus of youths abroad.

Adding that President Buhari, accordingly, has patriotically thrust the future and destiny of the students in their hands and with over 70 per cent of the age grade between 18 and 50 years dominating the 93 million registered voters; Nigerian youths cannot blame ethnicity, religion or sundry fault lines if they fail to vote for the candidate with verifiable character, more competence and no history of looting.

The secretary noted that in addition to the 2022 Electoral Act, a progenitor of electronic transmission of results, which was dubbed Vote-Rigging-Vaccine (VRV), President Buhari had assured the world of his commitment to free, fair and transparent elections.