Mahmood Yakubu, on Wednesday assured Nigerians that there would be no issues with Card Reader machines in the 2019 general elections.
“We have taken steps to improve the process of the smart card readers and we will continue to do so. We will also use improved smart card readers in Anambra election,” he said.
“We will deploy specific machine to the specific community and we will also provide additional machines and speak to the community leaders. We will treat all states equally.”
He revealed that the commission had suspended voter registration in Anambra until after the Nov. 18 governorship election in the state.
On INEC’s involvement in party primaries, Yakubu said that there was nothing the commission could do about the party imposing a candidate on its members.
“We have problem with party primaries but INEC has no power to disqualify a candidate of a party.
“There is nothing the commission can do about it but we promise the country that INEC can never go to court to defend any candidate after election,” he said.
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