Deputy Editor, LEON USIGBE, writes on the controversy created by the suspected existence of underage voters on the register of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) particularly in Kano State and the final recommendations of the INEC committee. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has come under heavy scrutiny in recent times because of the emergence of certain incontrovertible evidence that Kano State electoral register contains a dose of underage voters. It was thought that the committee would screen the 4.9 million Kano State voters register for underage names. The party in its latest reaction, berated the INEC Chairman for the suggestion that there was no evidence of underage voting in Kano. According to the report of the committee there was the need to clean up the voters register nationwide.

Source: Nigerian Tribune May 15, 2018 05:15 UTC