ANAMBRA: Soludo, 800 supporters first to come out with barrages of complaints

The APGA candidate in the on-going Anambra guber election , Prof Charles Soludo, is all gripes now as the card readers in his polling unit and other places remained on the fritz as of 12 noon.

According to him, he was unable to vote—just like 800 of his supporters elsewhere in similar situations.

“Eight hundred persons have been here since morning but we are having technical difficulties in this unit. There are also many polling units without INEC officials.

“Two fundamental things are there’s complete failure of card reader. It takes 20 minutes sometimes to accredit a voter. I’ve been here for 20 minutes waiting for INEC to fix things.

“We are getting complaints all over the state. By 12:30 voting is yet to start at my polling unit and we haven’t started voting. The experts have failed.

“This raises fundamental questions about technology. I’m shocked about the glitches and the fact that people are not allowed to vote. INEC needs to fix the technology. We’ve not even started and it’s almost 1pm so what time will the voting stop for the credibility of this process?

“In Ihiala, materials have not even left the local government but I’m calm and will be optimistic.

“The second thing is inadequacy of INEC staff to be punctual at the polling units. There are no policemen here which is the problem in some areas of the state,” he said.