Professor Olusola Eleka, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has not been able to vote as polling opened in Ekiti today.
Reports coming in from observers in the state says INEC’s card reader failed to read Olusola’s PVC and that of his wife.
“It is only the PDP candidate’s PVC that was not read by the card reader in his unit. Everyone else has been verified so far and voting ongoing. There is no assurance that another card reader would be brought. No use of incidence form. Meanwhile, a large turnout of voters still in a long queue in Eleka’s unit’ The Nation said.
However, Following the intervention of the INEC national commissioner, Eleka was manually accredited and allowed to vote.
Eleka thanked the INEC commissioner for creating alternative means for him to cast his vote.
He appealed to the National Commissioner of INEC to ensure that all the card readers in Ikere Ekiti polling units functioned properly.
Taiye, who supervised voting in the area, promptly assured Eleka via a press briefing that the governorship candidate would cast his vote.
She said that some of the major reasons why the card reader often rejects the PVCs was because the owners often tamper with the sensitive part of the card and whenever that happens, the machine would reject the card.
“Card readers often reject cards whenever the sensitive parts are tampered with.
“In the case of Prof. Olusola Eleka, I have contacted our ICT operators and the head office in Abuja and they are currently working on it and I want to assure him that he would vote before the vote ends,” she said.
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