ANAMBRA GUBER: Soludo Expresses Shock Over Accreditation Machine Failure

ALL Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Candidate in the 2021 Anambra governorship election, Prof Charles Soludo has decried the failure of the newly-introduced Bi-Modal Voter Accreditation System (BIVAS) machines which caused delay in process of voter accreditation as witnessed in many parts of the state today.

Soludo expressed shock over the ugly situation as he was yet to cast his vote at his polling unit as at 1 pm, but called for calm believing that the situation would improve.

He said, “The fundamental problem is the failure of the technology that is being tried in Anambra; it just hasn’t worked up to till this minute.”

The APGA candidate also lamented the lack of INEC staff and security officers in some polling units.

“There is hardly any ward that there are INEC officials in all the polling units,” he said.

“There is one at Uke that is supposed to be 17 polling units, but you have INEC officials in only five.

“Also, the security. As you can see, there is no police official here. And that is also widespread across the state. In Ihiala local government, the latest report I have is that the materials haven’t even left the local government, let alone get to the polling unit.

He urged all his supporters to be patient, noting that INEC assured that the glitches would be resolved.

“My message to all our supporters, millions of them across the state, that have enthusiastically looked forward to this day, I say to you: let’s be patient. They told us it’s going to work. And I am patient.”