{"id":229313,"date":"2022-11-18T14:11:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=229313"},"modified":"2022-11-18T14:11:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:11:20","slug":"2023-2-72m-not-kano-alone-uzi-osaze-clarifies-number-of-underage-ineligible-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/11\/18\/2023-2-72m-not-kano-alone-uzi-osaze-clarifies-number-of-underage-ineligible-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: 2.72m not Kano alone \u2013 Uzi-Osaze clarifies number of underage, ineligible voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oluwole Uzi-Osaze, former Director of Voter Education for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has clarified the issues of underage and ineligible voters in the recently released Provisional Register of Voters.<\/p>\n<p>Former Akwa Ibom State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Mike Igini accused some commission staff of registering underage voters.<\/p>\n<p>Igini blamed the collapse of values in society for underage registration, chastising parents who allowed their underage children to register as voters.<\/p>\n<p>The PRV was recently released for citizens to review, seek clarification, and file complaints with the commission as needed.<\/p>\n<p>Faces of alleged underage voters have been spotted in many states, especially in the North with Kano State said to have recorded over 2.72 million underage voters.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking on Arise Television\u2019s The Morning Show on Friday, Uzi-Osaze said the 2.72 was not for Kano alone but nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>He explained further: \u201cIt\u2019s either the electoral Commissioner was misquoted or he got it wrong. Somebody got it wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe total number of ineligible voters as released by INEC is 2.72 million people not just in Kano State but nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe total number of people who turn out for CVR in Kano was five hundred and sixty something thousand and less than a hundred thousand \u2026were actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/27\/48-year-old-man-arrested-for-allegedly-defiling-his-3-underage-daughters-in-anambra\/\">held to be ineligible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not 2.73m in Kanu that were held ineligible, that figure is quite wrong. They\u2019re not fake registrants but ineligible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIneligible in the sense that were not supposed to have gone for CVR. Possibly they have registered before and are now going for double registration and multiple registration either deliberately or inadvertently. Inadvertently in the sense that they were required to do transfer but rather than do a transfer some people just went and registered afresh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd INEC now found out that these people were previously on the register so they knocked them out. They removed them. And some others registered more than once in the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/08\/19\/ondo-amotekun-arrests-underage-herders-49-cows\/\">CVR<\/a> exercise either they deliberately changed clothes or changed names and those ones were also discovered and left out .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose that did not pass what INRC call their business rule for example if they were currently underage, were removed but having said that there are others who were not cut. The 2.7 is nationwide and it\u2019s for those who were unable to register under CVR.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oluwole Uzi-Osaze, former Director of Voter Education for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has clarified the issues of underage and ineligible voters in the recently released Provisional Register of Voters. Former Akwa Ibom State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Mike Igini accused some commission staff of registering underage voters. 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