Nigeria: Dickson Slams INEC Over Card Readers

28 March 2015

Bayelsa Governor Seriake Dickson has expressed total dissatisfaction with the performance of the card readers deployed by INEC to the state for such critical and sensitive elections like the Presidential and the National Assembly polls.

Dickson has therefore called on INEC to take urgent steps to address the failure of the card the readers, by resorting to manual accreditation, so as not to disenfranchise a huge number of eligible voters.

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