Kaduna Receives 7,827 card readers – REC

 

                   Ahead of the next Saturday Presidential election, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kaduna, Alhaji Hussaini Ahmed Mahuta Tuesday said the commission has received 7827 card readers with the excess as backups that are yet to be configured.
                 Mahuta who disclosed this while meeting with stakeholders preparatory to the elections, however stated that the backup card readers will only be configured when the need arises.
He said 3 back up card readers will be dispatched to each of the polling units in the state.
                   Meanwhile, he said 3,417,122 are registered voters in the state, out of which 3,404,481 Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs)
have been received from INEC for distribution, but only 3,160,949 PVCS have been collected while 221,722 PVCS are yet to be collected, giving 92.85 percentage collections.
The REC also said the distribution of the PVCs have so far been stopped except for the PVCs received in the last three weeks from INEC headquarters.
                  Stakeholders which were made up of representatives of the various political parties, security agents, religious bodies and Civil Society Organisations (CS0s), IPAC, AU and EU observers sought clarification on issues bordering on security, thump printing, voting and announcement of results among others.
The REC who proffer answers to the questions put across to him by the stakeholders‎, also informed that the Kaduna office has in its possession non sensitive materials while the sensitive materials are to be collected from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Wednesday with representatives of all the participating political parties in attendance.
“So far, within the ambit of the const‎itution, I can say that INEC is fully ready for the election in the state, but we will require a peaceful atmosphere to perform our responsibility.
“We are calling on political parties to talk to their supporters on the need to eschew all form of violence and any break down of law and order.”
The security agencies in attendance also assured of their preparedness for the election and vowed to vehemently deal with any violator of law and order before, during and after the elections.
They called on all eligible voters to conduct themselves in an orderly manner while those that have nothing whatsoever to do with the elections should kindly stay off the election venue.