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INEC chairman said the card readers were reconfigured to the new
election date to make them impossible to be used illegally.
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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