Former President Goodluck Jonathan has again been failed by the card reader.
In the March 28 Presidential Election that led to his ouster, the card reader machine which was meant to enhance the integrity of the election malfunctioned when the former president and his wife went to the polling station to cast their votes.
ON Saturday, more than six months after the general elections, Jonathan and his his wife Patience and mother experienced faced hitches at their polling unit in Otueke, Bayelsa State. As the card reader malfunctioned just as it did during the presidential election.
Also, Governor Seriake Dickson who is battling a re-election battle with Timpire Sylvia of All Progressives Congress also faced card reader malfunction.Although the Governor’s Permanent Voters Card (PVC) was authenticated by the smart card reader, it failed to authenticate his finger prints and that of most voters in his polling unit.
INEC officials at unit 039 ward 13 in Ogbia LGA, where Jonathan and his family votes, returned with another card reader at about 10am before he was later accredited. The unit is located exactly opposite his Otueke residence
The former President in his reaction, “From my experience today INEC must resolve the card readers before we go into 2019 election because before we went into the presidential elections the machine rejected my card and my wife”.
He also says that his confident that the election will bring forth a governor that will give the state good leadership, good covenant that will take everybody along.
Governor Dickson, who flagging the flag of the Peoples Democratic Party in the election, got accredited at Sagbama 06, ward 2, Oruerware compound in Toru- orua community by 10:45am.
He was unhappy about the slow pace involved in accrediting a voter.
Even though the elections in Sagbama Local Government Areas had been very peaceful, reports from other Local Government Areas in the state are worrisome as there is reported electoral violence in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area and Nembe Local Government Area of the State.
