The City Boy Movement has unveiled plans to mobilise and ensure five million elligible voters are registered before November 2026 as part of its nationwide mobilisation campaign aimed at increasing youth participation in the 2027 general elections and strengthening support for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election.
The initiative was announced during the movement’s 2026 National Retreat, themed “Youth, Unity and Action,” held at the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre, Abuja.
Deputy Director-General for Policy, Research and Strategy, Bobo Akpapunam, said the organisation had already compiled a database of more than 500,000 members and had commenced a nationwide validation and expansion exercise across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
“We’re aiming at 80,000 in all 36 states, aiming to get five million before the 1st of November. After we do that, the next step is going to get all of them PVCs,” he said.
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Akpapunam explained that the exercise forms part of efforts to build a data-driven political structure capable of sustaining grassroots mobilisation beyond the 2027 elections.
He noted that members would be profiled according to their occupations and skills to support targeted empowerment initiatives.
“Every member that is registered has to have a particular trade so that when we’re doing empowerment, we know exactly who to target,” he said.
He added that the retreat brought together members of the National Working Committee, zonal executives and state coordinators to harmonise operational strategies and strengthen the movement’s structures from the national level to the ward level.
Also speaking, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Digital and New Media and the movement’s Deputy Director-General for Media, Communications and Public Affairs, O’Tega Ogra, said the City Boy Movement had evolved beyond its original role as a campaign platform into a nationwide youth advocacy organisation with structures across the country.
“This movement has grown from just being a vehicle for electing President Bola Tinubu to becoming a voice of youth advocacy across the country,” Ogra said.
He stressed that the movement was committed to tackling voter apathy by encouraging greater electoral participation, noting that turnout in previous elections remained significantly below the number of registered voters.
According to him, the movement’s support for President Tinubu’s second-term bid is anchored on policies it considers beneficial to young Nigerians, including the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), tax reforms and agricultural programmes.
