 As the 2023 general election draws closer, concerns have been raised on the issues surrounding voter education, voter apathy and the fact that electorate are not being carried along on electoral processes. Our correspondent Jacinta Obiku takes a look at the issues. Voter education has become necessary to ensure electorates are aware of their rights, the political system, civic responsibility and their interests. On the street of Lagos, a large percentage of respondents know little or nothing about how to get their permanent voter's card. The voter's card is even more important than voting because once in any way you go even if you go to like you want to open a country, we'll ask you of your voter's card. I don't know how to get my voter's card but I'll find a way to get it. Actually I don't know much about the online registration. The only process I know is just to go to the nearest local government. Me that I'm talking, I haven't actually got some money but it's something that I have plans of getting so I don't really know, not even on the details on how to get it. I stay at Ikorodu and also that there is no vacancy in Ikorodu. I should go to Yaba. That is the frustrating part of it. But in the first place. A political analyst, Godwin Etakubibu, is not blaming the electorate for not participating in the country's electoral process. He believes a majority of Nigerians feel betrayed by the performances of the elected and as a result keep away from the polls. You don't blame the people so much. One, poverty has reduced people's knowledge to nothing. You're talking of online registration which made it easier. But in the first place, how many of them have light to power the laptop that they will use to do the registration online? How many of them are really technologically compliant? Even though it is INEC's statutory duty to conduct voter and civic education and promote the knowledge of a sound democratic process, Etakubibu believes that INEC can only try but cannot do all. So INEC will be trying, we shall be trying, the governments will be trying, the political parties will be making an effort. But to say that oh only INEC, no. And let's keep telling the people that failure to participate by use of your PVC permanent voter card, serve yourself vicariously liable for whoever that imagine. I want to appeal to Nigerians that the commission spends money, the country spends money to print these permanent voter cards and when we spend money to print them and we spend money in terms of paying registration officers to go for the purposes of distributing some of these permanent voter cards and people do not come to collect. It doesn't pay well of us as a people and as a country. So I think that we must realize the power in the PVC and make sure that we collect our permanent voter cards if we have taken the pains to carry out registration. As Nigeria moves towards the 2023 general elections, the commission and other stakeholders need to rekindle and restore the confidence of Nigerians in the electoral process. Jasinta Obuco, Clause 7 News.