FCT poll: INEC again conduct inconclusive election, to repeat two polling units

The Independent National Electoral Commission has again conducted inconclusive elections in the Federal Capital Territory.

The electoral body said the Saturday’s council poll could not hold in two polling units due to card reader failure.

National Commissioner in the commission, Prof. Anthonia Simbine, made this known in Abuja, while briefing newsmen on the election.

Simbine, however, announced that arrangement had been made for the exercise to be conducted in the affected units on Sunday.

According to her, the polling units involved are Dabi Village Square Unit 002, Pai Ward, Kwali and Dabo Fulani in Gwagwa, AMAC.

She said that the card reader stalled the conduct of the election in the units, explaining that at the time the technical challenge would have been resolved, “it would have been too late to begin election in the wards’’.

The commissioner charged all voters in the affected areas to come out on Sunday as INEC officials were billed to arrive at 7 a.m. to begin the conduct of the election.

Simbine said, “As of now, we have just two polling units where election will be repeated.

“It may be more than that at the end of the day but right now we are sure of two.

“In Pai ward, we are going to repeat the exercise by tomorrow, also in Gwagwa (AMAC); the card reader malfunctioned and the voters waited patiently in those places.

“They are going to have opportunity to vote tomorrow.”

NEWSVERGE recalled that the electoral body since the appointment of Mahmood Yakubu, as Chairman of the Commission has conducted inconclusive elections in Bayelsa, Rivers, and Kogi States among others.