Shouldn't come as a surprise, I expected it, so here it is ;
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.
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