INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja during a briefing on the progress made by the commission following the postponement of the general elections.

He said, “They (the card readers) are configured to specific polling units and only open for use at 8:00AM on the Election Day; they will automatically shut down by 10:00PM in order to forestall any illegal use of the card readers before the appointed time for elections.”

Professor Yakubu explained that the card readers were introduced in 2015 to facilitate the accreditation of the electorate using the Permanent Voter Cards (PVC).


Following the postponement of the elections, he said they were reconfigured to the new date of February 23, to make them impossible to be used for ulterior motives.

The INEC boss reminded the audience at the briefing that he had hinted at the success recorded so far in the reconfiguration process.

He said, “Yesterday (Tuesday), I reported 95 per cent completion of the configuration. I am pleased to report that we have now achieved 100 per cent completion of the configuration. We are good to go on this call”.

Professor Yakubu noted that the electoral body has made good progress on logistics, a major reason that led to the postponement of the elections.

He disclosed that the deployment of materials to all states across the country and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) had been completed.

The INEC chairman added that 10 states had already begun the movement of the materials to the local governments while other states would do so and conclude on Thursday.

The states highlighted by Professor Yakubu are Adamawa, Anambra, Benue, Ekiti, Jigawa, Katsina, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, and Taraba.

The presidential and National Assembly elections have been rescheduled to take place on Saturday while the governorship and State House of Assembly would hold on March 9.

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If the materials are distributed and election kicks off at the right time, there will no need of the the card readers staying on till 10pm.

Everything is set you say , and INEC is ready to deploy the materials and execute the process of this election, that simply means that by 7pm latest the election should be over and every card reader should be turned off by 8pm.


I pray God gives you the wisdom to get this election done hitch free.

we hope all will go well.

If true then it’s the right thing! Buh sha won’t stop anyone from trying to manipulate it before 10pm

Why?

Ok good.

But what if the poll is extended ?

All these promises will amount to nothing if you mess up on Saturday!

This applies only to South and some middle belt regions.

No bagga can stop hausafulanikanuris of the core north from voting all nite long specifically on rigging purposes. It's their only meal ticket to Nigeria largesse domiciled in the South