As at 9.20am, Polling unit 019, Femi Okunnu/Lateef Jakande, Ikoyi 2, under Eti Osa LG, where APC governorship candidate, Jide Sanwoolu, is to cast his vote, was still not ready. One of the two card readers is not functioning properly. So, the INEC officials have called their office for a replacement. So the over 500…
63 Card Readers Missing in Bayelsa
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Bayelsa has declared 63 card Readers missing. The Card Readers were declared missing this Tuesday in Yenagoa. by Wilfred Ifogah, INEC Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity. According to the commission, the machines got missing after the February 23 presidential and National Assembly elections. The card readers…
Buhari, Atiku Know Fate Today
Over 72 Million Nigerians file out today to choose the next president and national assembly members All are set for the presidential and national assembly elections today. Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, felt like a pregnant woman at her last antenatal care, at his last press conference Friday. He assured…
Card Reader Hitches in Abuja
Accreditation has ended in some polling centres in Abuja, while it is ongoing in other places. there were a few hiccups during the accreditation. card readers could not identify many finger prints and they had to be accredited manually. Voting tags were not provided for most polling centres, forcing the INEC Poll officers to fabricate…
Card Readers Malfunction at Obio-Akpor
Only one out of five card readers is working at Ward 9, Unit 7, Obio-Akpor Local Government Area, LGA, where Nyesom Wike, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship, candidate, has just been accredited. A lot of people are waiting on the queue for just one card reader.
Election: Police Minister Support Card Readers
Jelili Adesiyan, the minister of Police Affairs, has given his support for the use of electronic card readers in the coming polls on the condition that the motive is not to rig the elections or disenfranchise some voters. Speaking during a campaign rally in Osogbo on Thursday, the police minister said the introduction of the…
Who Is Afraid of Card Readers?
By Debo Adeniran The forthcoming 2015 general elections have recently been throwing up series of interesting scenario which, by all estimation, marks it the most controversial, most contentious and in fact, the most chaotic in the history of electioneering in this country so far. The two prominent gladiators i.e. the ruling Peoples Democratic Party and…