The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
has extended voting during the Presidential and National
Elections to Sunday in problem areas
It directed all Resident Electoral Commissioners in the
country to conduct election on
Sunday in areas where there were hitches.
It said it has also relocated all the contents on its website
to another site following hacking by some elements.
It however said it could not still exactly say what went
wrong in Otuoke, Bayelsa State which led to the delay in
the accreditation of President Goodluck Jonathan and
First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan.
The Chairman of INEC Committee on Information and
Voters Education, Mr. Chris Iyimoga, who addressed the
press at the Media Centre of the National Collation Centre
in Abuja, said with some hitches in some parts of the
country, there was no way the Presidential and National
Assembly Elections could be concluded today (Saturday)
.
He said: “Each REC has been informed to conduct
election on Sunday where there are hitches with
accreditation or voting. I cannot say exactly the number
of states affected but the problems are not in all the
states.”
Other National Commissioners at the briefing were
Ishmael Igbani; Muhammadu Wali; Engr. Nuru Yakubu;
and Gladys Nwafor.
On his part, National Commissioner Igbani said: “No one
can really say what went wrong in Otuoke but the
machine or the card readers could not capture the
fingerprints of the President and the First Lady. Where
such a situation, we had to use manual system.”
On the hacking of INEC website, Commissioner Nuru
Yakubu said: “We have lifted the contents on our website
and relocated to other site.”
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