Effectiveness of INEC Communication Awareness Strategies on the 2023 General Election A Study of Residents of South South Region

This Research Study titled effectiveness Of INEC communication awareness Strategies in the 2023 general elections. A study of the South South residents of Nigeria. Effective communication strategy is important for the conduct and management of electoral process. Information, education and communication are effective tools for behavoural change especially in the efforts to reduce voter, apathy, violence and increase participation in the electoral process. The objectives of the study was to determine the level of INEC's communication message raised awareness on voter registration. It was also to determine the extent to which INEC's communications raised awareness regarding the identification of polling units and also to reveal the assessment or extent to which INEC's communications raised awareness on how to cast the ballots. The survey research method was adopted for the study while questionnaire was used as data collection instrument. The 8,356,603 residents of the six 6 states capitals of the South south states were used as the population from where a sample size of 460 was drawn using the Taro Tamene formula. The purposive sampling technique was used for the study while simple percentage were employed in analyzing the collected data. Based on the analysis of data, finding revealed that INEC's communicate messages raised the awareness of the people in the area of voter registration. INEC's communication messages were not clear enough to the respondents in the area of knowledge of polling units identification. INEC's communication. Messages were not clear to the respondent in the area of how to cast ballots. Based on the findings, the study recommended that INEC should sustain the communication messages in the area of voter registration and be more consistent about it. Another recommendation is that INEC's communication messages be made more understandable increase knowledge on how to vote and reduce the trend of huge void votes during election. Paleowei Zikena Cletus "Effectiveness of INEC Communication Awareness Strategies on the 2023 General Election: A Study of Residents of South-South Region" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-8 | Issue-1 , February 2024, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd63474.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/political-science/63474/effectiveness-of-inec-communication-awareness-strategies-on-the-2023-general-election-a-study-of-residents-of-southsouth-region/paleowei-zikena-cletus