The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will use card readers during the 2019 general elections but ruled out the electronic transmission of results.

This is coming days after President Muhammadu Buhari’s rejection of the Electoral Act amendment bill sent to him by the National Assembly.

However, INEC chairman Prof ‎Mahmud Yakubu said the commission would deploy card readers in every polling unit in the country just as it did in 2015.

Yakubu, who spoke during the public hearing on the menace of vote buying and improving the country’s electoral processes, said the commission had finished all preparations towards the use of the card reader.

The public hearing was organised by the joint National Assembly committee on electoral matters and political parties’ affairs jointly chaired by Sen Suleiman Nazif Gamawa (PDP, Bauchi) and Rep Aishatu Jibril Dukku (APC, Gombe) respectively. However, the INEC chairman said the commission was yet to configure the card readers to match specific polling units, noting that INEC will do that in the coming weeks.

Responding to questions from some senators and stakeholders, Prof Yakubu said: “For those talking about whether INEC would use card reader during the 2019 elections or not, I want to assure that INEC will deploy card reader in every polling unit in the country.

“This is an assurance from the commission, and we are ever ready to do that, although we are yet to configure the card readers to match every polling unit.”

‎Senate President Bukola Saraki, had while declaring the hearing open, urged INEC, security agencies and other stakeholders to ensure free, fair and credible polls in 2019.

He said INEC should improve on the unprecedented record it set during the 2015 elections, pointing out vote buying is currently one of the most disturbing challenges of Nigeria’s political process.

The joint committee chairmen, Gamawa and Dukku said the public hearing was organised to give Nigerians an opportunity to suggest possible ways of tackling vote buying.

Disquiet over electronic transmission of results

But Daily Trust reports that beyond the issue of card reader, the leadership of the two chambers of the National Assembly, led by Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker Yakubu Dogara, with acting support of the leadership of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) want the amended Electoral Act assented to so that other issues including electronic transmission of results would be backed by law and therefore mandatory.

It was gathered that the PDP leaders had at a recent meeting with other stakeholders in the electoral process expressed fears that besides the reasons given by President Muhammadu Buhari for not assenting to the Electoral Act amendment, the Presidency and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) do not want the new electoral act for now simply because they have perfected plans to rig the 2019 elections.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/inec-adopts-card-readers-rules-out-electronic-results-transmission.html

They must transmit results electronically o.

I no go suffer go vote

Then some hediots will hijack ballot papers after I must have suffered.


Issue of incident form need to be addressed

Sai Baba

We didn't expect anything other than this result.

Weldone Jubrin, your brothers that you positioned in every agencies are working day and night for your re-election.
I blame Jonathan for being a weakling in the name of a Democrat and a man of peace.
Infact, the southern men and women are weaklings, wish I was born in the North.

And ladies and gentlemen, that was how PDP's plans to rig were shattered, and the Russians made away with billions for doing Nada!!.

Millions of people will be disenfranchised in 2019.

Good development.
Voters should be strictly those with verifiable cards

Nothing can ever surpass the WILL OF THE PEOPLE. Pres. Buhari may win but he will not rule up to a year.

Nigeria's biggest problem is Rural North. They have sworn to purnish the urban voters and social media ethusiasts who mock them daily.

The opposition will have to find an in-road into this group. Very hard but possible.

#Richdad

What have Buhari and APC done to improve Nigeria democracy since 2015. Why are they afraid of change

Whatever

I no be Dangote or Adeleke but I go de ok ooh

chai..... but where the card reader fails, incidence forms and manual verification will be used since according to Supreme court judgment in the case of Wike vs Peterside, Umanna vs Udom Emmanuel and Okezie Ikpeazu vs Alex Otii, it is recognized by the electoral act while the card reader is not. Anything short of that will amount to illegality and disenfranchisement of legitimate voters.

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What happens when a card reader fails? Will INEC not return to manual accreditation?

Was that not what brought about the fictitious 13.5 million votes?

Luciferdevil2:
Weldone Jubrin, your brothers that you positioned in every agencies are working day and night for your re-election.
I blame Jonathan for being a weakling in the name of a Democrat and a man of peace.
Infact, the southern men and women are weaklings, wish I was born in the North.

You don't need to tell us you're Igbo. By their posts we shall know them. Jubrin that till death you've no scientific proof he's impersonating buhari.

Continue to wallow in ignorance.

Kanu was released from prison, Army went for python dance, Kanu disappeared, and most of you said he was dead. More than a year later, he reappeared. None of you said he's Peter from Jerusalem, you believed him instantly. Same should apply to Buhari, by just common sense. He was sick and was in UK for months. It's not even up to a year like Kanu disappeared. But in less than 6 months, they were able to clone Buhari? Wow. Such a pathetic thinking. But for more than one year, they couldn't clone Kanu.

It's just shows that only fools who have no brain believe Nnamdi Kanu

Except I'm missing something but I don't think the issue is about deploying card readers, rather it is about ensuring that incidence forms are not used when card readers fail. So that we dont have somebody win with 5m votes from Kano but only 1m of the voters were accredited through card readers.

God will save Nigeria don't lose hope

So they don't want electronic method so that they can continue their manipulation? Ok oooooo. Na run I dey wait to run from this country

Electronic trans..... what ?

He's quite on the use of incident form, that's one of the KOKO!

Luciferdevil2:
Weldone Jubrin, your brothers that you positioned in every agencies are working day and night for your re-election.
I blame Jonathan for being a weakling in the name of a Democrat and a man of peace.
Infact, the southern men and women are weaklings, wish I was born in the North.

So Jonathan should have done what ?

All apc plans to rig this coming elections will fail. They’re so afraid, and are hellbent on rigging. They want to use the card readers so they can Rig like they did in 2015. Useless party with blind supporters.

davodyguy:

You don't need to tell us you're Igbo. By their posts we shall know them. Jubrin that till death you've no scientific proof he's impersonating buhari

Lol, listen boy I'm a full-blooded igbo man and I have never in a way lied about my identity. I even write in my mother tongue here.
Igbos are not afonjas that deny their identities to bash people here. I'm a proud Igbo boy, take it to the bank boy.

davodyguy:

You don't need to tell us you're Igbo. By their posts we shall know them. Jubrin that till death you've no scientific proof he's impersonating buhari

Very easy scientific proof: Let 'Buhari' remove his cap.

Corrinthians:
And ladies and gentlemen, that was how PDP's plans to rig were shattered.

PMB is wiser than all of PDP bigwigs put together.