Mr Amido Sarki, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kuje Chairmanship candidate in the Saturday’s FCT Area Councils Poll has cried foul of the exercise.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Mr Sarki as expressing dissatisfaction over the lack of enough polling units in his voting centre in Gaube, Kuje.
Sarki also expressed dissatisfaction over the malfunctioning of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) deployed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Speaking with newsmen on Saturday in Kuje, he said the voting centre with over 1000 accredited voters has only one voting point, thereby making the exercise very slow and frustrating for the electorate.
According to him, the INEC should not have introduced the BVAs in the area councils election without proper testing and verification.
“If the challenge is not properly addressed, people may not have the opportunity to cast their votes in good time.
“I advise INEC to also ensure that everyone in the queue should be allowed to vote before they stop the exercise.
“INEC should have split the unit into smaller units to facilitate the process, where more machines can be made available,” he said.
FCT election: Sorting, vote counting in progress in AMAC
Meanwhile, sorting and counting of cast votes have started at the Municipal Area Council (AMAC) in the ongoing FCT area council election.
Most of the voting units concluded voting and commenced counting 2.30 p.m scheduled for closing of voting.
At the PU018, Central Post Office, Garki Area 10, sorting and counting of votes were in progress as at 3 p.m.
Also at PU017 and PU015 Area 8, Garki, as well as PU:011, 007, 008, 006 and 005 at Area 2 Shopping Complex voting has also ended while sorting and counting were ongoing.
At Government Day School, Area 1, sorting and counting of votes were also ongoing at polling units 001A, 001B, 002A, 002B and 003 as at 3.50 p.m.
All the party agents that spoke with NAN described the voting process as peaceful.
At the PU018, Central Post Office, Garki Area 10, Mr Nwodo Sylvester of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Mr Oyetunji Segun of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said the process so far was smooth and peaceful.
Also the PDP agent, Ibrahim Sabo, and APC agent, Salihu Abubakar, at PU107 Area 8, said the process was peaceful without any problem so far.
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) polling unit agent, Mrs Abada Deninyefa, said though the election was peaceful, there was vote buying by a particular political party.