SHOCKING: Presidency don't want INEC to use card readers

Clearly, something is wrong and some people are determined to destroy the platform for free and fair election. Why should anyone reject the use of card readers which can check multiple voting and other forms of election rigging? Isaiahakomor.blogspot.com observed that this is not the way to go, not at this stage.

In the issues of PVC, most people in the North are casual and individual workers, who can leave their place of work at anytime to go and collect their PVC, but in Lagos and other major cities in the South, most people work in companies and offices where it is difficult to take excuse(s) to go for PVC.

Get the drift? It is easy for more people to collect their PVCs in the North than in the South, simple!

But sadly, indications have emerged that the Presidency and the PDP were already commencing tactics aimed at frustrating the decision of INEC to make use of card readers for the 2015 elections...

Investigations by PUNCH on Monday and Tuesday, indicated that the PDP and the Presidency were already looking at the possibility of mobilising people to demand that card readers be no used for election.

This is coming as a former Chairman of the PDP, who is now a chieftain of the APC, Chief Audu Ogbeh, said there were signs that the PDP was not interested in holding the elections at all.

Rather, Ogbeh said the party was still hell-bent on foisting interim government on Nigeria.

A source in the Presidency, who spoke on condition of anonymity in Abuja on Tuesday, said that both the Presidency and some members of the National Working Committee of PDP had been asked to continue to either condemn the use of the card readers for the elections or also that the commission be told to allow Nigerians to use the Temporary Voter Card instead of PVC for the election.

He said, “We are not comfortable with the card readers. For example, we have not seen any and we don’t know how it works.

“What will happen if the card readers fail to work? We have not even been told that they would not fail. And if they fail, what would happen. I think the issue of card readers must be re-examined.”

But INEC had insisted that card readers would be used for accreditation to verify genuine voters.

The device would eliminate impersonation and voting by proxy during the elections.