Jonathan had come to the polling unit at 9:20 a.m and one hour
later was yet to be accredited by three different card readers which
failed to capture he and his wife’s biometrics.
President Jonathan said that he wasn’t worried about the malfunction and described it as a little delay.
“President
Jonathan is just one person, so if we have problem with one person, as
far as the elections is going on well nationally,” he said. “I’m not worried, there might be a delay, my interest s that we conduct a credible election.”
He
said that no sacrifice is was too much for the nation and told eager
voters to be patient with the electoral body and make sure they get.
Jonathan was manually accredited and revealed that he would be
back by 1 p.m to finally cast his vote despite the large number of
people at the scene. INEC boss, Attahiru Jega had earlier said
that if PVC’s failed to, the commission’s staff at the polling units
will resort to manual accreditation.
The Resident
Electoral Commissioner at the polling booth, Barito Kpade confirmed that
the president and his wife were not accredited by the card reader and
said that the situation was very embarrassing as they had conducted
tests before today to fix any problem by the machines. He said he wasn’t aware of the reason why the card readers failed to work.
accredited.
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