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Mr. Ifeanyi Asogwa, who is a House of Reps candidate, yesterday called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to insist on the use of card reading machine for the forthcoming elections. Asogwa, who is contesting for the Nsukka/Igbo-Eze South federal constituency under the platform of the APC, stated that, if INEC could not use the card reading machine, it should jettison everything about voters’ card and use ‘Option A4’ for the March 28 and April 11 polls.
“If we don’t want to use card reader, let’s jettison everything about voters’ cards and use Option A4. We are comfortable with Option A4; we had the experience in the 1993 election, it was perfect”, he said.
Asogwa maintained that those against the use of card reading machine for the forthcoming elections were hatching plans to rig and commit other electoral frauds. “In as much as the use of card reading machine for the first time in this country may not give 100 per cent success, it will help to reduce electoral fraud, such as staying in a particular place to write election result.
“To me, I believe that those who are afraid of INEC using the machine are those who have plans to rig elections”, he added. The APC candidate urged the PDP not to panic about the elections if indeed it had justified its stay in power for the past 16 years, adding that they should be bold enough to state their achievements.-DP
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