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ABUJA—THE Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, has decried the malfunctioning of the Smart Card Readers, SCR, in some states at the Presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday and attributed it as a plot by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to favour their preferred candidates and party.
Specifically, Chairman of PFN, Cross River State, Pastor Lawrence Ekwok accused the INEC, of having a deliberate plan to disenfranchise voters in the presidential and National Assembly elections especially in the state. Pastor Ekwok told Vanguard that the Card Reader did not work in many places in Calabar Metropolis and Calabar South even when the electorate came out in large numbers before 8am to be accredited.
He said, “As I am talking to you now, many of the electorate who came out early are disappointed with the process. The Card Readers did not work in many places. In my unit, Bassey Aqua, very close to Immigtation office at Atimbo, Calabar Metropolis, not one person was accredited at about 11.30 am. At Grand Hotel, Atimbo, it is only one or two Card Readers that are working.
“At the polling unit at immigration, Atimbo, accreditation started about 11.30am. It is a deliberate ploy to rig the election in Favour of a political party. People came out about 8am, I left my wife in the house, up till 12pm, no accreditation. “As people came out to participate in the election and waited for a long time without being accredited, they went back without voting. Officials of INEC told me that the Card Readers are not working because there is no network.”
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