9 November 2014
MR. Kayode Idowu, Spokesman to INEC Chairman, when contacted, denied any ulterior motive on the part of the commission.
He said, INEC had announced all along that the exercise would only take place in 11 out of the 20 local government areas in Lagos State. This, he said, is because the permanent voter cards were not yet ready for the remaining nine local government areas.
He said as a result, the exercise in these nine local government areas has been postponed till towards the end of the month.
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| Kayode Idowu |
He attributed the hitches experienced in the 11 local government areas where the exercise was to take place today to technical problems that came about during the previous data capturing exercise at the polling units whereby most of the eligible voters did not have their fingerprints properly taken.
He also said some of the data got missing as a result of the storage disks crashing and some officials not being able to handle the card reader machines properly.
Idowu said in order to correct these anomalies, the commission had announced that those affected in these isolated areas should come out on Wednesday to re-register and have their data recaptured.
He said in the 11 areas where the PVC exercise is currently taking place, distribution of materials is ongoing and the Resident Electoral Commissioner has announced the extension of the exercise by a day till Monday.
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