We set out on Friday the 8th of March to monitor the proceedings at the Ward 7 Registration Area Centre, RAC at Mushin local government area of Lagos State. Since the state government had declared that there were no public holidays on the eve of the March 9 governorship and House of Assembly elections, everywhere seemed…
Card Reader Controversy
By Idowu Awoyinfa At Polling Unit 005 Agege 16, Balogun Street, the Card Reader was discovered to be malfunctioning. Some people who came from Ifo in Ogun State but were initially registered at Agege in Lagos passed the night around the neighborhood of the polling unit. They insisted that with or without the Card Reader,…
Ezekwesili Extols Jega, Says Card Reader Important for Transparent Elections
Oby Ezekwesili, former minister of Education and leader of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign oragnisation, has described Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as one who “will be remembered upon successful completion of the 2015 elections as the Nigerian that fixed the opaqueness of the country’s electoral system.” The former…