{"id":52979,"date":"2021-11-07T15:18:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T14:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/anambra-decides-voting-technology-has-failed-soludo-laments-at-polling-unit"},"modified":"2021-11-07T16:06:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T15:06:38","slug":"anambra-decides-voting-technology-has-failed-soludo-laments-at-polling-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-decides-voting-technology-has-failed-soludo-laments-at-polling-unit","title":{"rendered":"Anambra Decides: Voting technology has failed \u2013 Soludo laments at polling unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Anambra governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA ,Prof. Charles Soludo has lamented the failure of card readers at the polling units.<\/p>\n<p>Soludo at his polling unit said he was yet to cast his votes as they were having technical difficulties with the card reader.<\/p>\n<p>The former Governor also complained that about 800 persons were still waiting for the situation to be resolved by the INEC officials.<\/p>\n<p>Soludo said: \u201c800 persons have been here since morning but we are having technical difficulties in this unit. There are also many polling units without INEC officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo fundamental things are there\u2019s complete failure of card reader. It takes 20 minutes sometimes to accredit a voter. I\u2019ve been here for 20 minutes waiting for INEC to fix things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are getting complaints all over the state. By 12:30 voting is yet to start at my polling unit and we haven\u2019t started voting. The experts have failed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis raises fundamental questions about technology. I\u2019m shocked about the glitches and the fact that people are not allowed to vote. INEC needs to fix the technology. We\u2019ve not even started and it\u2019s almost 1pm so what time will the voting stop for the credibility of this process?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Ihiala, materials have not even left the local government but I\u2019m calm and will be optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second thing is inadequacy of INEC staff to be punctual at the polling units. There are no policemen here which is the problem in some areas of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soludo, however, pleaded with his supporters to wait and be patient till the card readers are working to cast their votes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Anambra governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA ,Prof. Charles Soludo has lamented the failure of card readers at the polling units. Soludo at his polling unit said he was yet to cast his votes as they were having technical difficulties with the card reader. The former Governor also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":52978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,5861,254,3679],"class_list":["post-52979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-anambra-decides","tag-nigeria","tag-soludo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Anambra Decides: Voting technology has failed \u2013 Soludo laments at polling unit - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Anambra governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA ,Prof. Charles Soludo has lamented the f ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-decides-voting-technology-has-failed-soludo-laments-at-polling-unit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anambra Decides: Voting technology has failed \u2013 Soludo laments at polling unit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Anambra governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA ,Prof. Charles Soludo has lamented the f ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-decides-voting-technology-has-failed-soludo-laments-at-polling-unit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-07T14:18:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-07T15:06:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/11\/img-6187eb652bd6d.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"810\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-decides-voting-technology-has-failed-soludo-laments-at-polling-unit#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-decides-voting-technology-has-failed-soludo-laments-at-polling-unit\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Anambra Decides: Voting technology has failed \u2013 Soludo laments at polling unit\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-07T14:18:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-07T15:06:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-decides-voting-technology-has-failed-soludo-laments-at-polling-unit\"},\"wordCount\":297,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-decides-voting-technology-has-failed-soludo-laments-at-polling-unit#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/11\/img-6187eb652bd6d.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Anambra Decides\",\"Nigeria\",\"soludo\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-decides-voting-technology-has-failed-soludo-laments-at-polling-unit#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-decides-voting-technology-has-failed-soludo-laments-at-polling-unit\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-decides-voting-technology-has-failed-soludo-laments-at-polling-unit\",\"name\":\"Anambra Decides: Voting technology has failed \u2013 Soludo laments at polling unit - 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