INEC assures card readers would be effectively deployed to avoid pitfalls of 2015 polls

  

    Ahead of 2019 Presidential and general election, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has assured that card readers would be effectively deployed to avoid pitfalls of  2015 polls.

   The commission also said it would engage no less than one million adhoc staff for conduct of the election.

  Speaking yesterday in Abuja when he appeared before the Senate Committee on INEC, Chairman of the commission, Prof.  Mahmood Yakubu, said the smart card readers would function very well as users would be adequately trained on its usage before the election.

  On the method the commission intended to use for the 2019 general elections in the rural areas, he said specific machines would be deployed to specific communities.

Yakubu, who also disclosed that the commission had suspended Anambra voters registration until after the governorship election, said the one million targeted ad-hoc staff would be about 300,000 higher than the over 700,000 ad-hoc staff engaged for the 2015 general elections.

   He said the commission was also planning on how to make the five categories of disfranchised Nigerians participate in the 2019 general elections.