The Independent National Electoral
Commission has said only its card
reader will be used for Saturday’s
governorship and state Houses of
Assembly elections.
It therefore advised those thinking
that the commission would have a
rethink on the use of cards to
perish the thought.
The Chief Press Secretary to the
chairman of the commission, Mr.
Kayode Idowu, disclosed this in an
interview with our correspondent.
Some politicians such as the
Governor of Niger State, Dr.
Babangida Aliyu, had called on the
commission to make another
pronouncement on the use of the
card reader for the elections on
Saturday.
Aliyu said the call became
necessary following the failure of
some of the cards during the
March 28 Presidential and National
Assembly elections.
When this happened, the
commission allowed voters to be
identified manually.
But Idowu said that that would not
be possible with the Saturday
elections.
He said, “Concerning the Saturday
elections, which is for the
governorship and state Houses of
Assembly, nothing has changed. We
will continue with the use of the
card reader . In fact, it is only the
card reader that will be used for the
elections that day.
“There won’t be manual reading.
We won’t also use any manual way
of reading or identifying voters.”
Meanwhile, a group known as
Organised Ndokwa Effort, has
charged electorates in the oil
producing states to vote in the All
Progressives Congress in the
region so as to maximise the
benefits of belonging to the
governing party at the centre.
The organisation also
congratulated President-elect, Maj.
Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on
his victory at the presidential
election, noting that his
emergence will usher in the much
desired genuine improvement of
the entire geographical sphere of
Nigeria and a departure from a
government which restricted
benefits to only the few elected,
their immediate families, friends
and cronies.
by ROTMANLUV 2023-07-08, 17:34
