Rivers gov poll: Only 293,072 voters accredited, INEC tells tribunal
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA—Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, said only 293, 072 voters were electronically accredited for the governorship election in Rivers State on April 11, 2015.
The Commission made the disclosure at the resumed hearing on the petition before the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, by the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its governorship candidate in the state, Dr. Dakuku Peterside.
Testifying as the PW-49, an Assistant Director in the ICT Department of INEC in Abuja, Mrs. Abimbola Oladunjoye, told the tribunal that the figure represented the total number of electorate captured by the Card Reader Machines used for the poll.
Oladunjoye, who is in charge of the Commission’s database, however, admitted that some electorate in the state could have been accredited manually, especially in areas where the Card Reader Machines failed.
She told the Justice Mohammed Ambrosa-led tribunal that information concerning the number of accredited voters for the election was transferred from the Card Reader Machines to a central server created by INEC.
According to her, the Commission stopped uploading data from the machines to its server, six months after the election held.
She said in some instances, the unavailability of network inhibited the upload of data from the Card Reader Machines.
She said in some instances, the unavailability of network inhibited the upload of data from the Card Reader Machines.
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