APC urges INEC to fine-tune card reader

The APC publicity secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, said in a statement on Sunday that though the verdicts returned from the vast areas where the exercise took place indicated that the test-run exercise gave hope for credible polls, there were areas that needed to be mended to remove doubts from Nigerians about the credibility and reliability of […]

The APC publicity secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, said in a statement on Sunday that though the verdicts returned from the vast areas where the exercise took place indicated that the test-run exercise gave hope for credible polls, there were areas that needed to be mended to remove doubts from Nigerians about the credibility and reliability of the device.
He said these include reported lapses in the functioning of the machines and inability of the device to recognise the finger prints of some prospective voters owing to dirty fingers.
He said INEC still has time for more awareness education to guide voters to ensure that no Nigerian is disenfranchised, adding that the commission has demonstrated evidence of INEC’s readiness to conduct fraud-free poll devoid of acrimonious disputes arising from flawed electoral exercises of the past.
“If the result achieved at the weekend is improved upon, we can safely say that the technology marks the end of over-voting and impersonation problems that dented the credibility of the nation’s electoral process leading to litigations that tasked contestants’ finances,” Olatubosun said.