LEADERSHIP REPORTS- The report of the probe committee set up by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to investigate the allegation of underage voting of the last Kano state local government election revealed that the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) didn’t use the national voters register made available to it by the INEC.
The Report, LEADERSHIP investigation revealed acknowledged the existence of a small number of underage voters in the register who were registered during the 2011 and 2015 registration exercises but disclosed that there was no cases of under age voting as widely reported during the Kano state local government election.
According to the report which is yet to be made public, but sighted by our reporter, a formal request and approval for the release of the register was done accordingly and KANSIEC printed the soft copy issued by INEC.
Although the Kano election was conducted by KANSIEC, which is an independent constitutional body, many political commentators immediately linked the election to INEC, arguing that since the voters register is compiled by the INEC, it should be held responsible for the prevalence of ineligible persons on the national register of voters
LEADERSHIP recalled that following the outcry that greeted videos and photos of underage voters at the election, INEC Chairman set up an 8-man facts finding committee, headed by Engineer Abubakar Nahuce, to investigate the issue.
The report was submitted last March and yet to be made public.
The contents seen by our reporter stated that accreditation was observed in the polling unit where the governor voted and a few others within the same voting centre for photo-op purposes but that remained the only place such was done as the elections was a free for all affair with voters not going through any process of accreditation but being allowed to vote.
The report affirmed that the KANSIEC threw process overboard and allowed for any one that wanted to vote to participate without recourse to INEC’s register.
The committee called for actions to be taking to ensure that SIECs enjoy real independence and as well as the introduction of measures targeted at cleaning up the voters register in the remaining 35 states of the federation and the FCT were cases of ineligible voters have been confirmed.

Reacting to photos of underage voters which went viral on social media immediately after the election, the report concluded that after thoroughly analysing the pictures and videos clips , it was discovered that majority of them were old pictures sourced from the internet that predated the February 10 local government elections in Kano.

“in fact, with only one exception, they were old pictures that have been in circulation in the social media between 2017 and 2017. However, many of the videos were from the LG elections in which unidentified persons were seen thumb-printing ballot papers in a free-for-all manner but in none of the clips was there accreditation of voters using the voters register, ” our Source who quoted from the report said.

The report gave graphic analysis and pictorial evidence of earlier media reports where some of the pictures have been reported as far back as the 2015 general elections
As part of its recommendations, the committee stated that there are indeed genuine concerns about the prevalence of ineligible persons on the register. It however stated that this is a national problem with the register of states like Ekiti, Edo , Anambra and all other states showing evidence of the presence of a number of underage voters .

It would be recalled that the issue of names of foreigners appearing on voters register has been discovered in other states like Ekiti, Niger, Taraba, and others.
The Committee however recommended that political parties as well as Nigerians should get involved in the process of cleaning up the voters register since all registrants belong to a community and are known by the party.

The report also noted the collusion between parties and communities which usually leads to the registration of underage voters. Our source further reveals that the INEC Chairman is determined to clean up the register and will soon make very major announcements in that regards.

Rubbish!!!
Jega rig 2015 election for his brother. 1)He “jega” introduce card reader to be use in 2015 election, but report had it that card reader was not use in the north. Kano recorded the highest number of vote from the north( with no vote cancel) how!! You mean those almajiri can vote with no mistake!!!
2) States like maidugur and yobe that we’re under state of emergency and still rule by boko haram then, House of rep then voted that election should be held in those states even with the level of security then, the present sokoto governor “Mr Tambuwal” known fully well buhari needed votes from those state and international monitoring committees can’t go to those states for security reasons and they were in other peaceful states flexing there muscles.
3) in the case of underage vote, pictures were shared online of children voting during the election, which I believe was brought to the notice of Jega. (Can’t call em proff, cause his a sale out) He did nothing, no committee was setup to investigate the cases of underage voting in the north (Kano) but when reports were brought about port harcourt, Nigger we up committee sharp sharp to investigate and bring report. No body said anything cause they want buhari in power.
4) Christians in the north, especially Maiduguri were not allow to vote. They were ask not to come close to polling unit. Cases like this were not in news because our journalists will be flexing there muscle in south, east and west. No election reports from the north.
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5) the only way underage voting can be stop in the north..
it can’t be stop.. it has been there since the creation of north. A night to election, voters card are shared to children, educated and non educated, almajiri And non almajiri to vote only one person, there brother. So make Inec let us hear word.
IG of police they work for buhari na em inec no go work for buhari. I have my PVC sha.

I think CCTV should be install in all polling unit in the next election

they should stop all this confusing talks...the simple truth is that underage voters were used during elections in kano states and mother northern states. ...when it comes to election and voting, the north is one and goes with one voice.....I was a corper in the north and participated in Inec elections..I saw things myself and think they have it better than their southern brothers whennit comes to electionminnthe country..so the main thing here is that they should stop it.

Keep on covering and protecting them instead of rebuking such

It will come back to bite you people back check the history of boko haram and herdsmen

Has anyone been arrested for the crime? No.

Imagine