Edo By-elections: NSCDC Intercepts Suspected Underaged Voters

By Idahosa Musa 

Two suspected underaged voters were during Saturday’s Edo Central Senatorial By-Election intercepted by men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) at Owu Primary School, Ewohimi Esan South-East LGA.

The suspects who were visibly looking underaged and with suspected fake voters cards were identified as Isoa Emmanuel and Kofi Oseibhue.

The development irked some political leaders at the school who almost pounced on officers of the NSCDC.

Leaping to the defense of the suspects, one Aimiebenomon, quarried the rights of the NSCDC to incept the suspects, saying that there was a lot of underaged voters during in the North.

While asking the NSCDC to take the suspects to court, the said Aimiebenomon, a leader of one of the major political parties in the election vowed to provide lawyer for the suspect in court.

He argued that by mere looking at the physical structure of the suspects, it is not enough to determine their age, adding that the suspects’ were affected by longtime hard work and poverty.

However, the suspects were later told by the officers of NSCDC to leave the voting vicinity apparently in a diplomatic move to escape being attacked by the angry youths.