The National Auditor of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Adewole Adeyanju, yesterday asked the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) to allow the use Temporary Voters’ Cards (TVCs) for the forthcoming general election to avoid rigging and disenfranchising millions of eligible voters.
Adeyanju however advised the commission to commence the use of the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in the subsequent by-elections arising from the general elections to test run the card readers.
He said the use of the TVCs “is to ensure peaceful and mass participation of the eligible voters, we want innovation but the full usage of the PVCs and the card readers for now cannot work,they have to test run the card readers, right now, the INEC has not been showing or demonstrating how the card readers will work”.
“The card reader as I was told will attend to a voter for almost five minutes, to attend to about 500 voters, it will take up to eight hours,how can this work as expected with the level of illiteracy in Nigeria? To me,I think it will be better for the INEC to test run it first and adopt its usage in future elections and not now”, he insisted.
He added that the postponement of the election saved the country from calamity, because INEC was not fully prepared for the polls as it claimed.
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