Charles Soludo, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the ongoing Anambra governorship election, has decried the failure of card readers at the polling units.
SurgeZirc NG reports the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) arrived at his polling unit early to vote but could not exercised his franchise due to malfunctioning of the BVAS.
Reacting, Soludo said, at the moment (of filing this report), only nine people out of over 700 voters have voted in the polling unit.
“People have been here waiting to vote, even before INEC officials’ arrival. BVAS technology complete failure.
“Voting has not started in many places and in places where voting has started, it takes up to 20 minutes to accredit just one person.
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“I am in shock and this is all over the state. We are still being optimistic that it will work. For 20 minutes, the technician has been fiddling with the machine.
“Secondly, there is an inadequacy of INEC officials manning the polling units. There is also a security issue. There is no policeman here. And this is all over the state. I am a die-hard optimist. Soludo lamented that people who have been waiting till 7. am have not voted at around 1 pm, asking INEC to fix the technology for them to vote,” Soludo lamented at the polling unit.
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