The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has sensitised it agents for the coming elections on their rights and responsibilities at the polling units on election day.
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, who is also the Director of Election Planning and Monitoring for President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid, Raji Fashola, said the party will not condone participation of under aged voters in Saturday’s rescheduled presidential election.
Addressing a news conference Wednesday in Abuja, while presenting an electoral guide that will assist APC agents in their assignment, Fashola said no underage person will be expected to participate in voting during the election.
He stated that the Electoral Act (as amended 2010) is very explicit on what age is allowed to register to vote, adding that one doing so is impersonating.
“By the nomenclature of it, under age voting is unlawful. If you are not old enough to vote, why should you even go and register in the first place?
“So it shouldn’t even arise, it shouldn’t happen, why should under-aged persons go near the polling station on the Election Day if the process is what it should be. Let us take it for what it is, the act is impersonation and the law is very clear on what should happen to whoever is caught doing so, “he said.
On the campaign council’s assessment of the preparations by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Minister said the commission is doing everything to win back the confidence of Nigerians by ensuring that the election holds as scheduled on Saturday without much hindrance.
He however, rejected the calls by some stakeholders urging the INEC’s chairman to resign on the account of last week’s postponement of the presidential election.
