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Nigeria Detains Supplier of Voting Card Readers, Opposition Says
Fun and games with voter ID in Nigerian's presidential election tomorrow:
Nigeria’s security service detained the head of the company that supplied biometric card readers and voting cards to the national electoral commission for general elections that start Saturday, the opposition said.
The Department of State Security Services picked up Sani Musa, an executive at ACT Technologies Ltd., in the capital, Abuja, on Tuesday, the opposition All Progressives Congress said late Thursday in a statement. DSSS spokeswoman Marilyn Ogar declined to comment when contacted by phone.
Femi Fani-Kayode, a spokesman for President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign, accused Musa of being a supporter of the main opposition candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, and said he had expressed hatred for the ruling People’s Democratic Party, Lagos-based ThisDay newspaper reported.
Jonathan’s campaign has criticized the use of the biometric card readers, saying they haven’t been distributed equally to voters across Africa’s most populous nation.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-27/nigeria-detains-supplier-of-voting-card-readers-opposition-says
The Department of State Security Services picked up Sani Musa, an executive at ACT Technologies Ltd., in the capital, Abuja, on Tuesday, the opposition All Progressives Congress said late Thursday in a statement. DSSS spokeswoman Marilyn Ogar declined to comment when contacted by phone.
Femi Fani-Kayode, a spokesman for President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign, accused Musa of being a supporter of the main opposition candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, and said he had expressed hatred for the ruling People’s Democratic Party, Lagos-based ThisDay newspaper reported.
Jonathan’s campaign has criticized the use of the biometric card readers, saying they haven’t been distributed equally to voters across Africa’s most populous nation.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-27/nigeria-detains-supplier-of-voting-card-readers-opposition-says
