Topic: INEC: Underage voters will be arrested (Read 282 times)

This thing they pain me and this matter na always from the north look does children face wey they the postal, I love the fact say inec chairman don make the matter clear they see you they catch you, I  go even raise the matter for our radio station make they hear for there ear, I they wonder who they register those boys self but I love the update wey chairman drop.

This is very laughable. Is it now that they realized or know about the underage voting. They  denied the complaint on the underage voting of 2015 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.ndr.org.ng/underage-voting-inec-denies-culpability/&ved=2ahUKEwif6vjs9sz8AhVCsKQKHdBcAMU4ChAWegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw2UweTU90WCKYDOYEgqgMa4. and now they are quick to make noise to justify their shortcomings. They already have their plots in mind so no need for these threats.
These underage voting mostly happens in the North which I will suggest to them to focus there this coming election because they are the soul initiators of this underage voters registration. The state government can not tell us that they are not aware of such because they are also beneficiaries of that act.
Who do they want to arrest? Is it the almajiri that walks about with plate on their hands begging for food or the  the imported fulanis from niger republic that have already been out in place for the act. They are even talking of arresting their parents too. I luagh I Swahili. They should continue.

Cotonou to share boundary with Bayelsa, how come e be say na Bayelsa dem catch the under age voter. Them try check the details wey dey the PVC and see where em register. E fit be camouflage to diversify attention to the south and people wey get the deal go dey run am.

 I no fit understand why we no fit do this our election free and fair for this contri, e fit happene say nah free and fair election but before you go cast your vote reach house you go hear say them don hikack the ballot box carry am run. Now you go dy ask if your vote go count becos if them cancel that center them fit no let una re-vote again. So we go just pray and hope for the best when we do our part.

You dey correct my mate,but I still dey fear say the election go dey bloody.If the normal thing wey we dey see for other elections nai we still see for this one,my mind dey tell me say some group of people go still come highjack the whole thing and make the election not to be free and fair.
If the election is done in a way that they allow people vote their choices,it would have been better,but they won't let that happen,they will always find a way to make the election full of corruption.We will only try our best, to make sure say we vote in our person wey we feel say e go help us.

I just get the feeling say this time election go dey different. The young nigerians don tire for everything as it can be seen in the ENDSARS protest. For the first time we saw Nigerians irrespective of our ethnic and religious divide came together and brought down the country to a standstill. I don't know how many of you watched the ENDSARS video at Lekki tow gate but I saw young Nigerians like myself telling the security operatives to shoot that they are not moving an inch when they are being shot at, and one of them even in his dying breath was singing the national anthem. Omo... this gave me goosebumps. I know some bullion van politicians will try to hijack the election but I just have this feeling that we are going to get it right this time.

 That Pikin no fit travel on em own com Bayelsa say him wan com vote na, dem don dy find way to take spoil oda state names make e no be say nah onli Fulani dem dy do dat underage voting.
 And again bruv, dem fit stop underage voting automatically oh, onli if dem no go allow dem cast there vote and gather dem on dat election day put dem for prison by doing dis one oda underage voters go fear to com out. Dis style suppose happen wen dem dy follow go for voters card enrollment self, stop dem early and you stop underage voting oh, na so I think say to use stop dis underage voting go dy possible.

I no know oo but this years elections just dey do me like say e go dey somehow special but all the whole wuruwuru wey dey happen before for Nigeria elections no go fit Just stop like that  finish so the change na small small, maybe inec fit srart by denying all this underage voters a chance for this time around general elections first , but that one sef go hard oo because Nigerians things once money don dey involved the whole mata don change.
  All this talk fit be story sha boss,  but eventually one-day the storyline go end for them to tell. But one thing wey we should do as Nigerians is to have a positive mindset towards our betterment one-day.

I com dey hear sae, bayelsa State command of police Patrol team arrested won Cotonou minor of 12 years nd di boy dey speak only Cotonou , so dem come carry di boy go to do Cotonou community in di state and when dem translate di boy language, he said it was on Fulani man that brought down there to vote for the forthcoming election in Nigeria. So dat meaning, underage voting can not be automatically remove I. Nigeria.

Waiting to make this year election differ from other ones at pass na advancement of technology from waiting I dey hear. Wen dey use advanced machine for election it go dey easy to monitor and hard to ring.
I agree with you it go dey hard to practice underage voting this term around. As for me ooo all dis underage voting no be issue becus I know sai na small tin wen everyone fit disallowed in him/her polling unit sofar it above d law. But the may tin make INEC no try ring the election becus anytin is possible in naija.

It's just all palter palter for the INEC commissioner to have made those threats that have been neglected for so long, a rule that is even a Nome to the northernants. There are villages where this rule cannot be taken seriously, except in some cities. Mahmood Yakubu, being the INEC chairman, should take that law more seriously in his place because "charity begins at home." 😂😂 A Bauchi man like him should start that law at his place first.

Normally, underage 🔞 voting is a tabu according to the constitution, but the House has taken it as a norm in its place and this are still same people trying to introduce underage voting.


@OP, It's 93.5 million, not just 93.5.
Toward making the registered voters public, I don't think is going to cause any harm, so let's see if they keep to their words in 6 days time from today (16/01/2023).

U knw where dis mata cast frm, na frm d registration process itself.
Jst carri eye see d image way dey 4 dat OP. U no nid persn 2 tell u say, dis pple na children dem be. Say na children way neva age betta 10yrs finish cef. Stil, u see dem 4 registration ground nd officials stil key dem in 4 dere system. In fact, na dere d arrest 4 start if dem reali wan tak dis mata serious.
I show say, evry system get code way fit link am to persn way dey run d registration. If dem start wth arresting pple way register under age voters first, ordas 4 tak note not to dey try register dem, let alone, 4 dis kids to dey com do registration or evn get liver com election ground.

I knw say, to luk system age no fit b red flag 4 underage bt, d passport way follow na d first red flag nd if such pikin ahq 4 election ground,na full verification. As e b  lik dat, mak dem no end am 4 jst arresting d pikin dem bt, mak dem extend am to d official way get mind key dem in.

You no lie at all, electoral malpractice they happen in so many ways than one, underage voting na one of them, but there are others too and i hope say INEC and the security agencies they look into the matter. As things be so, the only thing wey i fit request from Naija government be say make they do their best to ensure say election they free and fair, them no give us jobs, electricity, good roads, security, etc, no wahala, but make them try for this election, so that the people's candidate can be elected, so we go see if things go change for this country. Security of lives and properties is also very important in polling units, all this things suppose they in place so that the process go they smooth, free and fair.

Arresting underaged voters won't really stop irregularities in the fourth coming election but it will arrest the situation to an extent, there are other set of individuals who specialises in electoral irregularities, such as Thugs, our politicians, some Inec staffs too, and so on, all this people should be fished out together with the underaged voters and be rested so elections will be free and fair .
Even the government in some states still participate in electoral irregularities and as such the government should first make themselves an example for the rest of us to follow as no one is above the love.
Most times security personnels are also use to carry out this electoral irregularities which is not a good reputation ok their side.

I just dey remember how the last presidential election be. Na so news dey everywhere of how underage voters for North participate, but nothing dem fit do finally.
My question firstly na, who registered this underage voters? No be still INEC officials do the registration?
Secondly, I think before persons cast their vote the voting officers should impartially compare the card information with the person in possession of it to first confirm the age before allowing such a person or persons cast their vote. Unless the place where such election is meant to hold don't mind the turnout or voters profile, then useful pre-voting screening like this should be ignored.

E sure say dis year election go de extremely different because say youths don show dem say dem de concern and dem wan make dem monitor d election back to back. Na why INEC wan try make dem run d election free and fair.


No cap, na for North dis under Age voting de happen wella, but e no mean say e no de happen for oda side of d country, because all dis politicians fit do anything just to win election; but dis time, e go hard dem to rig dis election as we don de their head trying to expose dem if dem f up.

Almajiri go full cell if say Naija na sane country wey dey uphold the law but las las, they go still park these kids, give them card wey they don register on that day and they go vote

My brother sometimes we need to dy ask if our vote really count because some of us dy reason, like me dy ask that same question self. How I go come out to vote con still dy run at the same time? Nah wah oh... Na masquerade play or nah election for this contri? I no wan play with my life oh.

E get news wey make headline for United States about 2-3 days ago, wey a 6 years old shoot him teacher for school and she dey face life-threatening injuries. Dem come dey talk say this kind of thing never happen before, dem talk say dem go find out how the child get hold of gun carry come school... Say the matter no even reach juvenile, that dem dey reason how dem want take judge the matter, say dem fit put the child for foster care service.

America na place wey dey respect the rule of law. I stand to be corrected. But I no think say there's any place for the law wey talk say dem go arrest kid parent wey go partake in electoral fraud. Where dem fit arrest a parent na when dem try to protect their kids after dem don commit this crime. I see this statement by INEC as warning to parents and guardians to advise their wards and nothing more.

The way when I reason am be say if those underaged voters get parents them go arrest them but if them nor Kon get parents them go arrest only them. Because in the case of those Almajiri since nobody (parents) dey for dem nah only dem dey go carry comot go police station.


The thing be say those when dey contest they try to use the condition of the citizens to take do mago-mago for elections since dem know say most northeners dey suffer from poverty dem go Kon dey use money take dey make dem do wetin dem know say nor good. For example this issue of underaged voters; as little as 20k fit make those Almajiri when never reach the age to vote go register for voters card. Them fit just reach INEC office lie say dem don pass 18 years all because of money.


I nor go lie during the time when I go collect my card for INEC office I almost give up on the card collection. Imagine person go commot for house by 6 am return 3 pm without he card and the INEC official go come dey tell us say our card never come say make we come back again meanwhile nah them tell us for news say make we go collect our card. All these things join wetin make people dey participate for political apathy. My only prayer now nah make those when still dey struggle with their card collection nor give up because if them do nah all of us go gather suffer am if the wrong person enter office.