SITREP @ KABALA VOTING UNIT, KADUNA: POLLING UNIT OF VP SAMBO
• As at 10 am the polling unit was besieged by voters who had arrived since 8am waiting for INEC officials who were yet to arrive.
• 10:05 am – INEC officials finally arrive the polling unit.
• 11:30am – VP Nnamani Sambo arrives this unit, and was accredited without any hitch.


SITREP @ GBOKO, BENUE STATE
After initial delays in commencement of accreditation, the process is proceeding peacefully.

SITREP @ ASABA, DELTA STATE (IJEOMA OSOMOR AIT ANCHOR @ ASABA)
• Large turnout of voters at various polling units.
• Process is moving smoothly

INTERVIEW WITH DELTA STATE POLICE COMMISSIONER:
• There is adequate presence of security personnel.
• A total of 15000 policemen deployed across Delta.
• There were some incidents around Ughelli area due to late arrival of materials
• Hoodlums disrupted elections in a polling unit in Isoko
• Army provided security to move sensitive election material. Everything went smoothly.

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POLLING UNIT 39, WARD 13 OTUOKE, BAYELSA
• GEJ confirmed he is has just spoken with INEC Chairman, Prof Jega to ensure there are no hitches elsewhere across the country.
• Urges Nigerians to endure the temporary pain and undergo the process.

SITREP @ DAURA, KATSINA STATE
It took the officials about 10min to accredit Buhari and his wife Aisha. The process went smoothly.

SITREP @ LIFE CAMP, GWARIMPA, GARKI, ABUJA
• INEC officials arrived late. People waited endlessly for INEC officials
• Innovative voters decided to buy an exercise book to write down names of voters who arrived as early as 8am to prevent chaos when INEC officials start accreditation. Over 400 names written down in that particular polling unit before arrival of INEC officials.

SITREP @ KANO
• Accreditation ongoing at Kwankwankso , Bypass and other Polling Areas peacefully.
• Late arrival of materials. Voters waited patiently until materials arrived.
• INEC ad-hoc officials said delays and difficulties in logging into the Card Reader prevented early start of accreditation.
• Problems with finger prints authentication. INEC officials resorting to Incident Forms.
• Kano REC Commissioner (Alhaji Mukaila):
• 87% of PVC distribution achieved.
• All sensitive materials have been distributed.
• Kano has about 5m registered voters.

SITREP @ RIVERS STATE

• Sporadic shooting at Obio/Akpor area
• 12noon: Voting materials just arrived at Akpor Primary School poling area
• Accreditation carried out manually in Opobo/Nkoro LGA
• Sporadic shooting in 17 wards of Obio/Akpor LGA
• In Okrika, PVC which were not available to voters during collection period suddenly becomes available in polling stations
• Party agent caught with fake result sheets and photocopy of voters register in Obio/Akpor LGA
• Rotimi Amaechi appearing very angry and combative refuses to have himself accredited until he sights the INEC Result Sheet. I wonder if any voter has the right to sight all INEC sensitive material before exercising his civic duty. Even the President of Nigeria did not display such interference and arrogance at his polling unit when he could not be accredited.

Change is coming Nigeria.

GEJ till 2019

SITREP @ NIGER STATE
No voting in 20 polling units in Niger State


SITREP @ IBADAN, OYO STATE
• Peaceful accreditation
• Voting has commenced.
• Ajimobi accredited. Commends INEC raising the standards, and confirms this election to be the freest, most credible exercise.
• Akinyele LGA: Few Card Readers in some areas gives rise to very slow accreditation.
• Some Card Readers had low battery problem initially. These were sent for charging
• Mapo, Apata, Lagelu and other areas: Visible presence of various security personnel and Anti-bomb Squads.

SITREP @ OTUOKE, BAYELSA. 3:00 - 3:30pm

• President Jonathan, his wife and mother successfully cast their vote
• Gov Anambra State, Willie Obiano called GEJ complaining bitterly about non-working of card readers in Anambra. Gov Obiano was boiling, but GEJ said he told him to calm down that the problem is not limited to Anambra alone.
• GEJ called Enugu State Governor to confirm reported bomb blast. The Gov dispelled the rumour. He said it was just a mere scare. During a routine search of a vehicle what appeared to be Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was discovered. This turned out to be a false alarm.

SITREP @ PLATEAU STATE 8:34pm
• Widespread failures of card readers in Plateau
• Voting still going on in parts of Plateau.
• In most areas accreditation was still in progress till 3pm.
• In Tudun-Wada area, voting and counting is still going as at 8pm
• In some units manual accreditation was already in use even before Jega announced this should be used wherever card readers have failed.

SITREP @ DELTA (UPDATE) at 8:48pm
Elections suspended by INEC in Udu LGA

NATIONAL UPDATE @ 9pm

• INEC says it encountered significant challenges especially in failures of Card Readers
• INEC orders elections to continue on Sunday, 29th March in places where elections could not be held

#NIGERIA2015

SITREP @ BAYELSA. 8:30pm

• In Sagbama, materials arrived late. Manual accreditation used due to failure of Card Readers.
• No ink in markers in the indelible marker pens that was used to authenticate. Actual voting started at 2pm
• No officials of INEC at Ekeremor LGA. Materials not available in many units. Yesterday when Channels TV visited INEC office, it was confirmed that materials for Ekeremor have been despatched