Whereas Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country with over 215,000,000 people as of 2022 and is projected to grow to 375,000,000 by 2050 and become the third most populous country globally; Whereas Nigeria is the largest economy in Africa with an estimated gross domestic product of more than $1,050,000,000,000 as of 2021; Whereas the United States and Nigeria share strong economic and trade relations in which the United States remains the country’s largest foreign investor concentrated in petroleum, mining, and wholesale trade sectors; Whereas the Nigerian people and the Nigerian diaspora have contributed both to the United States and Nigeria through culture, business, and trade, and reaffirms their longstanding transatlantic ties; Whereas Nigeria’s electoral cycle scheduled in 2023 includes Presidential, parliamentary, State gubernatorial, and assembly races that has been described as different from the six previous elections since Nigeria’s transition from military to civilian rule in 1999; Whereas, as of 2023, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) reported an unprecedented surge in voter registration, with a voters’ roll of nearly 93,500,000 in which 40 percent of those registered are under the age of 35; Whereas youth civic engagement is paramount to cultivate the next generation of leaders in Nigeria as they navigate a path forward from economic challenges caused by the COVID–19 pandemic; Whereas, in the 2015 Presidential elections, an opposition party won the Presidency and control of the National Assembly for the first time in the country’s history through transparent elections; Whereas the subsequent general and gubernatorial elections in 2019 were fraught with last-minute delays, political infighting, and electoral offenses that undermined public confidence in the electoral process, INEC, and the Nigerian Government as a whole