Retired Justice Ayotunde Phillips, LASIEC Chairman, said this while briefing newsmen on Saturday after touring some polling units in Lagos Mainland Local Government and Yaba Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs).
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INEC’s National Commissioner, Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, said this when he appeared on the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja on Thursday.
Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, confirmed this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday night.
The Independent National Electoral Commission said it has replaced and reconfigured the 198 Smart Card Readers that were on Friday burnt in its office in lbesikpo Asutan Local Government Area of Akwa lbom State.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has deployed 10 to 15 additional Smart Card Readers to each Local Government Area in Gombe State as a backup.
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday said the use of Smart Card Readers is mandatory in Saturday’s governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections.
The Independent National Electoral Commission in Bayelsa State has appealed to those in possession of its 63 missing card readers to return them before Saturday’s elections.
Hundreds of eligible voters’ in several parts of llorin metropolis were unable to cast their votes at the commencement of voting on Saturday following malfunctioning of smart card readers.
Prof. Godswill Obioma, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ebonyi, says 3,288 reconfigured Smart Card Readers will be used in the state for the February 23 and March 9, elections.
The Independent National Commission on Tuesday said it has achieved 95 per cent configuration of the Smart Card Readers to be deployed for the Presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has disclosed that 4,695 Smart Card Readers were destroyed by fire that engulfed its Anambra State headquarters office on Tuesday.
Barely four days to the Presidential and National Assembly elections, fire on Tuesday gutted two containers housing Smart Card Readers for the conduct of elections at INEC headquarters in Awka, Anambra.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has expressed confidence in the performance of the Smart Card Readers to be used at the forthcoming general elections.
The field-testing, which will hold in 225 polling units and 358 voting points across 12 wards in 12 states of the country, is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the technology, which will be used for the first time in the electoral process
The INEC Chief said the test-run idea was mooted to convince Nigerians about the relevance of the smart card readers and to identify the challenges that could probably be encountered and get ready to proffer solutions to them for Nigeria to have a hitch-free polls
Maku, said the first batch of 17, 000 is expected to be delivered within six months while the remaining two batches will follow at a later date. He explained further that the card readers are meant to stop incident of double voting and to detect fake voter’s cards