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Underage voting: INEC threatening democracy -PDP

Olalekan Saliu by Olalekan Saliu
March 4, 2018
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Underage voting: INEC threatening democracy -PDP
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The declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, that there are no underage voters in Kano State is an act of cowardice and threat to the nation’s democracy.

This is the position of the leading opposition party, the  Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

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Following the complaints of underage voting in the recent local government election held in Kano, INEC set up an 8-man panel to probe the allegation.

At the end of the probe, the panel declared that there was no evidence that the pictures of underage voting were from Nigeria.

According to the panel, some of the pictures were said to have emanated from Kenya.

But in a statement issued on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, the party said the declaration by INEC was despicable.

It said that a huge doubt had been cast on the sincerity of INEC to conduct fair, free and credible elections, come 2019.

PDP’s statement reads:  “When Prof. (Mahmood) Yakubu set up his committee of handpicked INEC officials, instead of deploying stakeholders, comprising of political parties and credible NGOs, the PDP immediately alerted of a grand design to use the panel to arrive at predetermined findings and cover the illegality for the APC.  Today, we have been vindicated.

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“We invite Nigerians and the international community to note the sequence of plots by INEC and the APC to hide the existence of underage voters in Kano and Katsina states.

“Nigerians will recall that when the issue first came to the fore, the APC mounted a staunch and unyielding defence for INEC, thus betraying their vested interests in the illegality.

“INEC, on its own part, issued an initial reaction confirming the existence of underage voting in the February 10, 2018 Kano council poll but attempted to shift the blame to the Kano State government which conducted that poll.

“When confronted with the fact that it was INEC and not Kano State that registered the minors and issued them with valid voters card, the commission again tried to exonerate itself by claiming that its officials registered the minors following threats by the communities.

“In the face of these INEC’s embarrassing dances, how then did Prof. Yakubu’s committee arrive at its findings when even officials of INEC, including those who superintended over the registration of the minors, had already declared the reasons behind their action?”

The party said it was shocking that INEC under Prof. Yakubu was caving into pressure by APC to allegedly manipulate processes leading to the 2019 general election.

PDP said INEC boss should understands that the APC was only setting him up against Nigerians.

It however warned that INEC boss should not allow himself to be used to throw Nigeria into chaos and confusion.

“He should therefore extricate himself by allowing a credible inquest that will sanitise the register in Kano, Katsina and other states as nothing short of that will be accepted by Nigerians,” the party said.

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