RESIDENT Electoral Officer (REC), Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Oyo State, Mr Mutiu Agboke has allayed fears of politicians outsmarting the electoral process, noting that the Smart Card Readers (SCRs) could not be preloaded because it had been configured to begin to function only on the two days of election, February 16 and March 2. Agboke, who stated this on Tuesday, added that the commission boasted of enhanced SCRs, alongside Registration Area Technical Support (RATECH) members across wards, to fix technical issues that may arise using the SCRs on election day. He urged voters who are first to get to polling centres to ascertain that SCRs are not preloaded, and would see that the count at the start of voting reads zero. While noting that 846,417 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) remained uncollected, Agboke said collection will end on February 8 and locked up with the Central Bank of Nigeria. He rubbished notions that INEC will trade uncollected PVCs with politicians, noting that PVCs won’t be sold under any form of pressure and that the commission will not compromise.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 05, 2019 17:03 UTC