WE DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT KID VOTERS IN KANO, SAYS INEC

The INEC spokesman, Oluwole Uzzi   said the commission is statutorily empowered to conduct all Nigeria’s elections, except the ones to the local government councils conducted by the electoral commissions in each state.

The commission while, acknowledging the pictures of the underage voters, emphasized that “as far as we can ascertain, they (the pictures) relate to a local government election conducted at the weekend (in Kano)”.

“While the Commission remains resolute in our commitment to sanitise the nation’s electoral process and deliver free, fair and credible elections, we cannot be held directly or vicariously liable for a process outside our legal purview. Our own part, INEC assures the public that we are doing all we can to ensure a credible election”

Uzzi admitted that INEC  is aware of the challenges people face in trying to get registered at some centres, adding that to address this problem, the commission had taken two steps, including the deployment of more direct data capturing machines for registration and increasing the number of the registration centres to 1,446 nationwide.

“We believe that with the measures taken so far the queues and other identified challenges will soon abate,” the commission said.