Worried by the large-scale irregularities that characterised the just concluded presidential and National Assembly elections in Niger State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state has warned that any community that refuses to allow the use of smart card readers during the next Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly polls would have the results of the affected area cancelled.

INEC said the non use of the smart card readers contravenes the Electoral Act, insisting that the smart card readers were integral part of the electoral process and therefore mandatory for it to be used during the election.

Resident Electoral Commissioner in Niger State, Professor Sam Egwu, gave the warning in Minna on Tuesday after inspecting materials for next Saturday’s elections.

The INEC warning is sequel to complaints by local government returning officers for the presidential and National Assembly elections in the state, that the presiding officers were forced to drop card readers machines for manual voting in no fewer than 10 out of the 25 local government areas of the state.

According to Egwu, the commission discovered that in some parts of the state during the presidential and National Assembly elections, voters refused to use the smart card readers under the guise that the machines failed to function.

“I am aware we had challenges with the card readers in some areas; there was popular pressure to abandon the smart card readers; let me warn that failure to use the card readers the consequences will be very grave

“We will put zero for any polling unit where the card readers are not used,” Professor Egwu declared.

He also said that there was no link between the networks of the telecommunications service providers and smart card readers, insisting that card readers operate independently of telephone networks.

Professor Egwu disclosed that the commission was ready for the conduct of the governorship and House of Assembly elections, saying that it had received all the sensitive materials.

“All the sensitive materials are here in Niger State; we have scrutinised them, we have batched them local government by local government; we don’t have any shortage.”

He added that the materials would be sorted out polling unit by polling unit and despatched on Friday.

Professor Egwu said 31 political parties were fielding candidates for the governorship election in the state while 371 candidates from 27 political parties would jostle for the 27 assembly seats in the state.

The resident electoral commissioner was of the view that Saturdays election “will be more competitive, because all politics are local; elections on March 9 are local; people who did not vote the last time want to vote this time around.”

He, however, called on voters to conduct themselves in orderly manners during and after the election so that they would not run foul of the law.

https://www.akelicious.net/2019/03/inec-threatens-to-cancel-election.html

Why they will say they want card readers,do they want to rig the elections or what

Hoping for the best.

Card readers were not used in atleast 10 LGA in Niger State and some people are claiming Election was free, fair and credible.

Surely, only accredited votes pulled from Card readers are credible. With this Buhari may not be credited by more than 5 million in all 19 Northern States.

Any votes than CANNOT be supported by evidential use of Card Reader is to recorded as ZERO

Nice one from inec, these irregularities occurred mostly in North eastern states and north western states. inec should resist any form of manual voting. it contravened our electoral laws.

This warning should have been issued 2 weeks ago...Nonsense

Good,Anything for the Wailers to Masturbate on is Accepted.........Lets Hear from the Nairaland Experts

chidima2019:
Worried by the large-scale irregularities that characterised the just concluded presidential and National Assembly elections in Niger State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state has warned that any community that refuses to allow the use of smart card readers during the next Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly polls would have the results of the affected area cancelled.

INEC said the non use of the smart card readers contravenes the Electoral Act, insisting that the smart card readers were integral part of the electoral process and therefore mandatory for it to be used during the election.

Resident Electoral Commissioner in Niger State, Professor Sam Egwu, gave the warning in Minna on Tuesday after inspecting materials for next Saturday’s elections.

The INEC warning is sequel to complaints by local government returning officers for the presidential and National Assembly elections in the state, that the presiding officers were forced to drop card readers machines for manual voting in no fewer than 10 out of the 25 local government areas of the state.

According to Egwu, the commission discovered that in some parts of the state during the presidential and National Assembly elections, voters refused to use the smart card readers under the guise that the machines failed to function.

“I am aware we had challenges with the card readers in some areas; there was popular pressure to abandon the smart card readers; let me warn that failure to use the card readers the consequences will be very grave

“We will put zero for any polling unit where the card readers are not used,” Professor Egwu declared.

He also said that there was no link between the networks of the telecommunications service providers and smart card readers, insisting that card readers operate independently of telephone networks.

Professor Egwu disclosed that the commission was ready for the conduct of the governorship and House of Assembly elections, saying that it had received all the sensitive materials.

“All the sensitive materials are here in Niger State; we have scrutinised them, we have batched them local government by local government; we don’t have any shortage.”

He added that the materials would be sorted out polling unit by polling unit and despatched on Friday.

Professor Egwu said 31 political parties were fielding candidates for the governorship election in the state while 371 candidates from 27 political parties would jostle for the 27 assembly seats in the state.

The resident electoral commissioner was of the view that Saturdays election “will be more competitive, because all politics are local; elections on March 9 are local; people who did not vote the last time want to vote this time around.”

He, however, called on voters to conduct themselves in orderly manners during and after the election so that they would not run foul of the law.

https://www.akelicious.net/2019/03/inec-threatens-to-cancel-election.html

This should go across all states

...Ok O...So Manual Voting Is Allowed In The North While In The East Its Not Allowed....
How Did We Get Here

They are crazy... We were prevented from voting cause of faulty card readers over here in the south, whereas they had a free day voting in the north. if you are serious, cancel the ones for presidential elections too then tell us how many votes remain for North.

Best approach if done whollistically!

Medicine after death. This threat will count for nothing in the north.

The true voting strength of the KKK states will soon be revealed
I'm not sure the card reader recorded up to a million in the 3 states

Better

After Emefiele, the next person Buhari should remove is the INEC chairman

Sincerely speaking sha

That card reader is smart when it comes to reading pvc. (No failure to read)
But reading the finger print of the owner na wahalar ( failure to authenticate is too much)

In my polling unit
I was Apo2. ( My duty is to check the electronic register)
Our Apo1 was a female ( the person whose duty is to use the smart card reader)


And with what we observe. If the card reader can be improved it will be good.

Because we were able to read a lot of voters pvc( permanent voters card)
But when it comes to authentication ( reading finger print) it failed woefully!

Now the problem is does this card reader really communicate with inec server after every successful election as we were made to believe.
Hmmmmmmm anyway inec should pay me my allowance o before this Saturday gubernatorial election abi na governorship election
If not i will just riggg the election for pdp by ticking alot of names
In the register and double reading the permanent voters card with the smart card reader

Is Inec even normal ?

INEC is very stupid. They have no iota of integrity. How come they did not cancel the presidential election. Foo lish people.

They enforce card reader in the South but do without card reader in the North.

Respirator after death from Prof.Sugar Cube Equality.

Useless electoral commission. I miss Jega's INEC

More than 70% of Buharig votes were without card readers.
That is why it was easy for APC agents to massively thumbrint in the north with
the connivance of security agencies.
Nigeria elections will never be free and fair unless card reader is made mandatory for all locations.

The 2019 elections has shown, once and for all, who the fraud is. Especially, with respect to the 2015 elections.

Even Buhari knows the election wasn't free, fair and credible. But his selfish nature will make him keep mute.

Toothless EYE NECK




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