The Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC, on Wednesday declared that Smart Card readers have
lost their usefulness.
INEC’s National Commissioner of
Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye said the smart card reader has
lost its relevance because the courts do not recognise it as a means to prove
over-voting.
Okoye, who spoke yesterday in
Abuja said the courts still rely on voter registration and election results as
a means of proving over-voting.
He also blamed politicians for
the nation’s electoral woes.
“We must also find solutions to
the issue of smart card reader. The smart card reader has lost its efficacy.
The smart card reader has lost its vibrancy in relation to the electoral
process because the political elite has found a way around it.
“So, rather than use the smart
card reader, they just ignore it, because ultimately, they know that when they
get to the court, what the court will be saying is that: ‘you want to prove
over voting? We want to see the voter register and we want the INEC forms and
not the smart card reader’.
“So, as far as I am concerned,
the smart card reader has become a redundant instrument and inconsequential,”
Okoye said.
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