The Director General of the National Orientation Agency, Mister Mike Omeri, has commended the mass mobilisation of voters despite a few challenges identified in the accreditation process so far.
At the Ta’al Modern Primary school in Keffi, Nasarawa State, Mr Omeri expressed the hope that the election would be held smoothly, given the observed peace and tranquility at the polling stations visited.
Accreditation of voters has commenced across Nigeria as citizens go to the polls to vote in the presidential and national assembly elections, the 5th quadrennial election to be held since the end of military rule in 1999.
In Lagos State, south-west Nigeria, voting materials arrived at some of the polling units early.
Channels Television correspondents, who visited polling units in Ikeja and Ifako observed that accreditation had already started. Residents at Ifako were seen queued up in orderly manner while officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were seen giving on final instructions on election processes.
Our correspondent in Kano, north-west Nigeria, said accreditation started early and was still going on smoothly, though there were cases of some people not being able to get accredited as the card readers failed to read their finger prints.
In Otuoke, the home town of the Nigerian President and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Goodluck Jonathan, the card reader failed to recognise the finger print of the President, forcing the INEC to accredit the President with the Register.
