INEC DENOUNCE KANO UNDERAGE VOTERS SAY'S 'NOT ON OUR REGISTER'

Mahmood Yakubu chairman of the Commission, told journalists on Friday in Abuja that the register produced by INEC was not used by Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) in the election.

“Kano State Independent Electoral Commission requested for and received from INEC the Kano State Register of Voters for the election. The Register was produced for use for the elections.
“However, the Register was only sighted in a few polling units. In other words, the Register was not used in most of the polling units. In fact, accreditation using the Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC) largely did not take place,” he said.

Mr Mamood said this was discovered after the investigation committee had National Commissioner Abubakar Nahuche as Chairman, another National Commissioner, May Agbamuche-Mbu, two Resident Electoral Commissioners (Mike Igini and Kassim Geidam) as well as some Directors and staff of the Commission, who are ICT gurus, as members.

inec boss as well added that perhaps underage voters participated in the Kano State election, the commission did not by any means record it in the register and it's therefore counted as void. 

“Given that the Register was substantially not used to accredit voters before voting, it is logical to conclude that if underaged voting occurred in the election, it was NOT due to any presence of underaged registrants on the Register of Voters.
“However, after examining some of the images in circulation, the Committee found that they have been available long before the Kano Local Government Elections. The few images and video clips from Kano show no accreditation of voters or any relationship with the Register of Voters,” he said.

He said further that the commission was not in any way involved in organising the Kano State Local Government election beyond the legal requirement that the register of voters compiled by INEC should be used in all Local Government elections nationwide.

“The conduct of that election was entirely the responsibility of KANSIEC,” Yakubu said.

The investigation committee according to the INEC Chairman has since submitted its Report.