Oyetibo said with the instructions, INEC might just be opening the floodgates for rigging, which, he said, would even be difficult to prove at election tribunals. The SAN expressed this concern on Friday during the annual thanksgiving day of his law firm,Tayo Oyetibo LP, in Lekki, Lagos. He said, “If the experience from election petitions is anything to go by, the use of any finger to cast votes is a veritable subterfuge for multiple ‘thumb-printing’ of ballot papers. “Under the former voting regime, it was easier to detect multiple ‘thumb-printing’ of ballot papers by observing the size and shape of the print on the ballot papers, as the sizes of the other fingers are naturally narrower than the thumb. “But with the permission of the use of any finger to cast votes, it would seem that the floodgate of multiple ‘thumb-printing’ of ballot papers have been flung open.

Source: Punch February 17, 2019 17:37 UTC