INEC on Saturday extended voting in the Presidential and National Assembly elections to Sunday, March 29 in polling units affected by delays and malfunctioning PVC readers. This only impact polling units where the card reader did not work and could not be replaced. Chairman of INEC Committee on Information and Voters Education, Mr. Chris Iyimoga, said :
“Each REC has been informed to conduct election on Sunday where there are hitches with accreditation or voting. I cannot say exactly the number of states affected but the problems are not in all the states.”
Other National Commissioners at the briefing were Ishmael Igbani; Muhammadu Wali; Engr. Nuru Yakubu; and Gladys Nwafor.
On his part, National Commissioner Igbani said he could not still exactly say what went wrong in Otuoke, Bayelsa State which led to the delay in the accreditation of President Goodluck Jonathan and First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan.
“No one can really say what went wrong in Otuoke but the machine or the card readers could not capture the fingerprints of the President and the First Lady. Where such a situation, we had to use manual system.”
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