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1st LD: Nigeria extends voting into an extra day due to card reader glitches

Xinhua, March 29, 2015 Adjust font size:

Voting during the presidential and national congress elections in Nigeria have been extended to Sunday, due to card reader glitches which almost marred the exercise in many parts of the West African country, the electoral body said Saturday.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nigeria's electoral body, said it has directed all resident electoral commissioners in the country to conduct elections on Sunday in areas where voter accreditation or voting problems were recorded.

INEC noted the election could not be concluded Saturday due to the glitches.

"Each resident electoral commissioner has been informed to conduct election on Sunday where there are hitches with accreditation or voting. I cannot say exactly the number of states affected but the problems are not in all the states," Chris Iyimoga, chairman of INEC committee on information and voters education, told reporters at the National Collation Center in Abuja. Endi