The Independent National Electoral Commission has released results of Presidential election in 10 local governments in Ogun State.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has described the hiccup of Card Reader in accrediting President Goodluck Jonathan at Otuake Ward as a huge national embarrassment.

The day dawned bright and fair. Nigerians woke up, yesterday, with only one thing in their mind: To go out and peacefully elect their next president. The television stations came up live very early, affording Nigerians the opportunity to witness the main presidential candidates vote.

NIGERIANS should thank the Almighty that it was President Goodluck Jonathan, and not Maj-Gen Muhammadu Buhari, who had to spend the better part of an hour waiting for the smart card reader to unfold his biometric details. Four card readers after, several consultations and part-time tutorials on operating the machine, the card reader did not recognise the President and his wife Dame Patience Jonathan. They left for home, returned, tried again, the same result.

Even in the face of provocation of gargantuan proportions occasioned by the episodic failure of the Smart Card Readers, SCRs, Nigerians persevered, were patient and eventually voted at yesterday’s presidential and National Assembly elections.

Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, General Mohammadu Buhari on Saturday said it would be unfair for anyone to contemplate the cancellation of the presidential polls following a few recorded hiccups.

The Presidential and National Assembly elections in Ogun State held, Saturday was peaceful with little skirmishes in various parts of the state.

Problems with new technology on Saturday forced a 24-hour extension to the presidential election in Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria, and renewed Boko Haram violence hit the knife-edge vote. The Islamist militants were suspected of killing seven in separate attacks in northeastern Gombe state, including at polling stations, while on Friday, 23 people were beheaded […]

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.

Voting commenced on time at the area 2 Ogun street polling station at the Garki area of Abuja where accreditation and verification commenced on time. A voter who spoke with Vanguard said unlike other places said there were no cases of Card reader rejection of voters. A voter who declined to be named said “nigerians […]