PROFESSOR YAKUBU MAHMUD INEC CHAIRMAN
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says card readers will shutdown automatically by 10PM on the day of elections.
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INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja during a briefing on the progress made by the commission following the postponement of the general elections.
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He said, “They (the card readers) are configured to specific polling units and only open for use at 8AM on the Election Day; they will automatically shut down by 10PM in order to forestall any illegal use of the card readers before the appointed time for elections.”
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Professor Yakubu explained that the card readers were introduced in 2015 to facilitate the accreditation of the electorate using the Permanent Voter Cards (PVC).
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Following the postponement of the elections, he said they were reconfigured to the new date of February 23, to make them impossible to be used for ulterior motives.
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The INEC boss reminded the audience at the briefing that he had hinted at the success recorded so far in the reconfiguration process.
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He said, “Yesterday (Tuesday), I reported 95 per cent completion of the configuration. I am pleased to report that we have now achieved 100 per cent completion of the configuration. We are good to go on this call”.
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Professor Yakubu noted that the electoral body has made good progress on logistics, a major reason that led to the postponement of the elections.
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He disclosed that the deployment of materials to all states across the country and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) had been completed.
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The INEC chairman added that 10 states had already begun the movement of the materials to the local governments while other states would do so and conclude on Thursday.
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The states highlighted by Professor Yakubu are Adamawa, Anambra, Benue, Ekiti, Jigawa, Katsina, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, and Taraba.
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The presidential and National Assembly elections have been rescheduled to take place on Saturday while the governorship and State House of Assembly would hold on March 9.
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