Voting in the ongoing Anambra State governorship election has been extended till Sunday by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The electoral umpire stated that this is to enable those who could not vote on Saturday due to the malfunctioning of the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BIVAS) machine to do so after reports that the machine failed to work in many units.
While addressing reporters at the INEC office in Awka, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr Nkwachukwu Orji, said the closing of voting had been shifted from 2.30 pm to 4. pm on Saturday, after which the exercise will continue on Sunday in units where voting could not hold.
He said materials did not arrive on time at some polling units because some drivers and ad-hoc staff failed to turn up.
Regarding the machine malfunction, he said that the commission’s engineers were working to rectify the software hitches.
