INEC tackles Atiku on use of smart card readers

The presidential candidate of the Nigerian Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, Thursday accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of making a U-turn on its plan to use Smart Card Readers (SCR) in the upcoming 2019 elections. The commission, however, promptly denied the allegation, saying it was false. The commission had some weeks ago reaffirmed its decision to foreclose the use of incident forms, insisting on 100 per cent use of smart card readers in the 2019 polls – a measure aimed at correcting abuses in previous elections.