By Timothy Agbor, Osogbo
A ninety-five-year-old woman, Rebecca Amusan, yesterday, said she arrived early to her polling unit because she yearned for a better Nigeria.
Mrs Amusan said she arrived at Polling Unit 9, Ward 2, CAC School, Esu-Abon, Ife Noth Local Council of Osun State at 6.00 a.m. to exercise her franchise.
However, the aged woman was disappointed, as the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) neither recognised her face nor finger during the accreditation.
The Guardian learnt that she was the first on the queue to be attended to by the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission.
After her finger was rejected by Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine, the officials tried her face but it was also not verified.
Speaking with The Guardian, she said she couldn’t remember how many Nigerian presidents she had voted for, but noted that she was out early to ensure that “Nigeria becomes better.”
On how she felt about the difficulty she faced during accreditation, she said: “I think my hands are weak. That’s why they could not verify them.”
Amusan, who walked with aid of a walking stick, was brought to the polling unit by her daughter.
When officials couldn’t accredit her to vote, she was asked to step aside for a while, for others on the queue to be attended to.
“We will return to her. We just want her to relax for a while before we try accrediting her again,” the Presiding Officer of the polling unit told The Guardian.
After some about five minutes of waiting, the accreditation was retried for and it was successful. She voted immediately after.
Source: The Guardian