Lagos: Voting suspended as card reader malfunctions at Sanwo-Oluâ€™s polling unit

News Express |9th Mar 2019 | 1,377

Lagos APC guber candidate Sanwo-Olu

Voting was on Saturday morning delayed at the polling unit of the governorship candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in Ikoyi, Lagos, following the malfunctioning of some of the card readers provided by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

As at the time of filing this report, voting had yet to commence and INEC officials were battling to fix the machines.

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