One of the two card readers provided by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the polling unit of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s polling unit in Ikoyi, Lagos, has failed.
An INEC official told newsmen that the voting is yet to start because the card reader has to be fixed.
TheNewsGuru recalls that INEC’s Commissioner in charge of Voter Education , Festus Okoye, in February restated the directive regarding the use of card reader.
“It was made very clear that the use of the smart card readers is mandatory. Therefore, no staff of the Commission or any ad-hoc staff of the Commission is permitted in whatever guise to deliberately refuse to use the smart card readers for the conduct of elections.”