INEC has assured that its technology would solve the problem of election rigging. In Anambra, the technology is not given any hope
Across many polling units in Anambra, INEC’s technologies are slowing the voting process, and in some places, crippling it altogether.
INEC says the introduction of more technology in the Anambra election, especially the ones that would allow for the transition of the election results electronically would deepen the quality of the election.
But across many polling units, the INEC technology is failing, leading to speculation that it could be a systematic disenfranchisement of people in opposition strongholds.
For instance, at the polling unit of Chukwuma Charles Soludo, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, not a single person has voted as at 10:10 AM, with hundreds of the voters waiting impatiently.
A reporter of Arise TV at the polling unit interviewed angry voters who have been agitated that they have not been able to cast their votes in the last two hours.
“Not a single person has voted in this polling unit with more than 200 voters waiting to cast their votes,” a voter who was interviewed said.
The INEC official at the polling unit said he has communicated to his supervisor at Awka who said the problem is not peculiar to the polling unit which is located at the Aguata local government area of Anambra State. But some analysts say it could a plot to systematically disenfranchise the voters.
