The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), at the weekend, shifted the blames of missing names of prospective voters on its register to the affected eligible voters. In some polling units across the country, prospective voters with their Permanent Voters Cards searched in vain for their names on the commission’s manual voters list. He claimed such eligible voters did not make use of the window created by INEC to verify their names on the Voter Register during the seven days set aside for verification of the list of voters. We displayed the voter register for claims and objections for seven days for people to check their names on the voter register. While he expressed regret over incidents of malfunctioning of Smart Card Readers, the INEC spokesman claimed reports of hacked SCR were unfounded.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 24, 2019 06:45 UTC