Soludo and Ngige, Bomb INEC
The machines failed to
work in many units, leaving voters stranded.
The machine could not
capture Dr Ngige in Alor Ward 1 Polling Unit for over an hour.
He feared the failure
of the technology could disfranchise over 35 per cent of voters in his ward.
The former governor
said INEC should not keep such equipment for too long in the warehouse.
Ngige is optimistic
that the All Progressives Congress (APC) would be victorious at the end of the
election.
Soludo, who was also
kept waiting in his unit, described the BIVAS technology as a complete failure.
He said: “I kept
getting calls all over the state about the breakdown of the BIVAS machine.
“Two fundamental
points are that the technology has collapsed. This BIVAS technology is a
complete failure so far.
“By 12.30 in the day,
voting is yet to start in most polling units in the state.
“In a few places where
they’re going on, the technology that I understand does not take seconds, now
takes 20 minutes, sometimes 30 minutes or more.
“With the crowd that
you can find here, I mean hundreds of people, even if the machines start
working now, and it takes a minute to accredit each person, you are not going
to finish this crowd today.
“It raises fundamental
questions about the technology. I’m quite a bit shocked to learn that this is
happening all over the state.
“I’ve been getting
calls from virtually every local government without exception about the
glitches and the fact that people are not voting.
“Places where you have
800 Orr 900 people, you could probably have five or six that have voted so far.
“Maybe, we will keep
being optimistic that it is going to be fixed. So far, we have been here for 20
minutes but the technicians have been fiddling with it but no way.”
Comments
Post a Comment