The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has said its members will not support any presidential candidate that is above 60 years in the 2023 general election.

Addressing a press conference at the weekend in Kaduna, president of the forum, Ambassador Yerima Shettima, said the group will pitch its tent with a young candidate.

He, however, said it was yet to decide on the particular candidate to support, explaining that several factors would be considered in the choice of who to back.

The group added that Nigeria will keep producing leaders who have nothing to offer unless the country is restructured.

“I am one of the voices in the North today that believe in restructuring. The more we continue to centralise power, the more we will keep having people not worthy in governance.

“We are of the view that a room for referendum should be created. Those agitating for secession should be allowed to have a referendum, let’s see how popular the agitations are. If any part of the country wants to go, organise referendum let’s see how popular they are, so that separation can take place without bloodshed,” he said.

Chief Victor Oye, National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), says he is confident that Nigeria can successfully adopt electronic voting as well as the electronic transmission of results.

This is even as me. Charles Soludo, the governorship candidate of APGA in the Saturday Anambra government election has won 18 out of the 20 local governments declared so far.

INEC had suspended declaration of final result pending the conclusion of supplementary election on Tuesday in Ihiala local government where election did not hold due to security reasons.

Mr Oye spoke on Sunday night while the collation of results from the 21 LGA’s of the state in the governorship election was still underway.

“The electronic process is working but let INEC improve on it. Nigeria has the capacity to go electronic. We can vote electronically as well. That is the lesson we have to take from this election. That electronic voting and transmission of results is possible in Nigeria,” he said.

Speaking further, Oye described the election as peaceful, saying such can be replicated across Nigeria.

“There is no election that could have been as peaceful as this. This is the most peaceful election we have had in this state. If we make some modifications on the bad, Nigeria can conduct elections with great integrity,” the APGA Chairman said as the party opened the lead in the election.

The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room also gave similar observations, saying that the election was generally peaceful but had widespread vote-buying.

In its report on Sunday regarding the polls, the Situation Room gave some specific instances of vote-buying to include the sale of votes for amounts ranging from N1,000 and N6,000 at various locations.

The organization, however, noted that this was being carried out very discreetly in some polling units while in others, the vote-buying was done in full glare without prevention from the security personnel.

Nevertheless, the Situation Room disclosed that voters in a particular polling unit in the state rejected an inducement of N5,000 per vote.

The agency commended the courage of those voters.