Card Readers Will Shut Down By 10 pm On Election Day – INEC
Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, disclosed this at a press briefing on the progress made by the commission in Abuja. on Wednesday.
The INEC chairman said the card readers were reconfigured to the new election date to make them impossible to be used illegally.
“They
are configured to specific polling units and only open for use at 8 am
on the election day; they will automatically shut down by 10 pm in order
to forestall any illegal use before the appointed time for elections,”
he said.
“Yesterday, I reported 95 percent completion of the
configuration. I am pleased to report that we have now achieved 100
percent completion of the configuration. We are good to go on this
call.”
Yakubu added that the electoral body had made progress on
logistics. He disclosed that the deployment of materials in all states
across the country and the federal capital territory (FCT) had been
completed.
He also added that 10 states had already begun the
movement of the materials to local governments while other states would
do so and conclude on Thursday.
The states he listed include Adamawa, Anambra, Benue, Ekiti, Jigawa, Katsina, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, and Taraba.
The
presidential and national assembly elections have been rescheduled till
February 23 while the governorship and state house of assembly
elections would hold on March 9.
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