The
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has approved the
postponement to Sunday of elections in some polling units where
accreditation was challenging.
Two of the polling units
affected by such postponement are at Iyalla Street in Alausa, Ikeja,
where the presiding officer announced the postponement because card
readers were not working and there was no back-up.
It
is not yet clear the full details of polling units affected by such
postponements and total number of voters that could be affected.
However,
in a statement via its twitter handle @inecnigeria on Saturday evening,
the electoral agency stated that “in PUs where accreditation was
suspended to the next day in accordance with the guidelines,
arrangements will be made for voters to vote tomorrow, subject to the
provisions of the Electoral Act 2010.”
The statement also gave
permission to electoral officials to do manual accreditation of voters
when card readers are causing problems.
Saturday’s elections are to elect a president and members of the federal parliament in Africa’s largest country.
The
presidential elections is seen as one of the closest in the nation’s
history and is mainly between the incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan
of the Peoples Democratic Party, and Muhammadu Buhari of the All
Progressives Congress.
Credit: Ben Ezeamalu/Premium Times
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