The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has directed that
elections should to Sunday in areas where the exercise has been marred by
glitches.
The Chairman of INEC Committee on Information and Voters Education, Mr.
Chris Iyimoga told journalists at the Media Centre of the National
Collation Centre in Abuja, that hitches being experienced in some parts of
the country in the electoral process means there was no way the
Presidential and National Assembly Elections could be concluded today.
“Each REC has been informed to conduct election on Sunday where there are
hitches with accreditation or voting. I cannot say exactly the number of
states affected but the problems are not in all the states,” said Iyimoga.
According to him, all Resident Electoral Commissioners in the country have
been directed to conduct election on Sunday in areas where there were
hitches.
He also revealedb that the Commission has relocated all the contents on
its website to another site following hacking by some elements.
Other National Commissioners at the briefing were Ishmael Igbani;
Muhammadu Wali; Engr. Nuru Yakubu; and Gladys Nwafor.
“No one can really say what went wrong in Otuoke but the machine or the
card readers could not capture the fingerprints of the President and the
First Lady. Where such a situation, we had to use manual system,” Igbani
said.