Senator representing Ondo Central Senatorial District, Tayo Alasoadura, has said that the upper legislative chamber will soon enact a law that will make it mandatory for the usage of card readers in every election.
Alasoadura, who said the National Assembly is working on how to make an amendment in the electoral laws to accommodate this, noted that the country must continue to improve and move forward in its electors process.
The lawmaker, who is a chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) disclosed this to journalists at the weekend in Akure, the Ondo State capital.
He recalled that during the last general elections, there were some places where the machines were not used and at the end, candidates that benefited from the lack of the usage were declared winners.
Alasoadura expressed optimism that the bill would be passed into law in the next three months.
According to him, “The bill is in the stage of getting everybody to agree because if you want to propose a bill and you don’t carry your colleagues along, they will shoot your bills down. But if everybody signs to it, it can be passed within two weeks.”
While speaking on the malfunctioning of the machine, the lawmaker said, “Human beings sometimes malfunction, people should expect that to happen but one of the things they (INEC) can do is to carry two to three along to every polling unit. If one malfunctions, they use the other so that at the end of the day, you would do what electoral law has said.”
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