INEC will not use incident form in 2019 elections –REC

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The Independent National Electoral Commission will not use incident form in 2019 elections, as the card reader will be effectively utilised.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Imo State, Prof. Francis Ezeonu, said this at a Town Hall Meeting/Sensitisation Campaign of the commission on Continuous Voter Registration in Egbema/Uguta Local Government Area of Imo State.

He said the commission was upgrading the card reader machine to make it more functional and effective during elections.

He told the participants and politicians that the era of playing pranks with people’s permanent voter cards during elections was gone, adding that anyone with a card that the card reader did not recognise would be disfranchised and would not be given any incident form.

Ezeonu said accreditation and voting would start simultaneously to avoid long queues and time wastage during elections.

He advised…



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