Monday, January 17, 2011
INEC machine rejects Obasanjo’s fingerprints
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| ALWAYZ NEWS:PUBLISHING |
It was a frustrating time for ex-President Obasanjo yesterday as his attempt in the ongoing voter registration register has been thwarted by the Direct Data Capture (DDC) machine.
Obasanjo who have arrived Ward 11, Ita-Eko, Abeokuta, the capital of about 11.53 clock, accompanied by his wife, after several rejections Bola offered his hands off the machine, again had to exercise after a trip abroad.
However, was the former president, who patiently wait for about an hour in the registry for an Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Information Technology expert had succeeded, the scene at around 12.45 clock and led the registry.
Even with the presence of INEC officials and the IT expert, the registry about 20 minutes, to be completed by the process, while the State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr. Martins Okunfolami and other INEC officials made frantic efforts to register ex President.
Obasanjo who have arrived Ward 11, Ita-Eko, Abeokuta, the capital of about 11.53 clock, accompanied by his wife, after several rejections Bola offered his hands off the machine, again had to exercise after a trip abroad.
However, was the former president, who patiently wait for about an hour in the registry for an Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Information Technology expert had succeeded, the scene at around 12.45 clock and led the registry.
Even with the presence of INEC officials and the IT expert, the registry about 20 minutes, to be completed by the process, while the State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr. Martins Okunfolami and other INEC officials made frantic efforts to register ex President.
Before his late entry if the first machine DDC failed, the INEC team modified by the REC led his scanner and used two different, they are also disappointed. Fielding questions from journalists, warned Nigerians against Obasanjo, INEC scourge on the shaky start of the exercise. According to him, it was driven normal for a new program like the DDC technology on voter registration challenges in the early stages of experience, although he said that it was too late to call for the extension of the deadline for the exercise.
"Whenever you start a new program like this, it is likely to puncture, to all men to have. Today is the second day. I believe that by the middle of this week, both the people implementing the registry, which technicians who are INEC at the highest level in a position to make this work smoothly.
"Well, I do not think that we start now, scourged and condemned. Of course, if by the middle of the week it is not working as it should be, we will all see, and then those who would advise us how we can go over them conceived. But now I let's see this as the hiccups of a new process to believe. "" Do not let us they anticipate, we give them time to think and rethink, if a change is required, "said Obasanjo.
"Nigerians to be patient and let us all determined, we registered to get. I said, I am today to travel evening to Cuba when I return, I will come and sit here until I'm registered. And when I jokingly said, if it is blood that does not run in my vein, I will go for blood transfusion, to ensure that I can be registered, "he added.
