four voter cards had failed to read the President’s biometrics and accredit him for voting at the Otazi playground polling centre in his home town, Otueke, Bayelsa State.
Jonathan had come to the polling unit at 9:20 a.m and one hour later was yet to be accredited by three different card readers which failed to capture he and his wife’s biometrics.
A sweating Jonathan said that he wasn’t worried about the malfunction and described it as a little delay.
“President Jonathan is just one person, so if we have problem with one person, as far as the elections is going on well nationally,” he said. “I’m not worried, there might be a delay, my interest s that we conduct a credible election.”
He said that no sacrifice is was too much for the nation and told eager voters to be patient with the electoral body and make sure they get accredited.
UPDATE: Jonathan Gets Accredited
Jonathan was manually accredited and revealed that he would be back by 1 p.m to finally cast his vote despite the large number of people at the scene.
INEC boss, Attahiru Jega had earlier said that if PVC’s failed to, the commission’s staff at the polling units will resort to manual accreditation.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner at the polling booth, Barito Kpade confirmed that the president and his wife were not accredited by the card reader and said that the situation was very embarrassing as they had conducted tests before today to fix any problem by the machines.
He said he wasn’t aware of the reason why the card readers failed to work.
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