
Nigeria: Card Reader - So Smart, It Can't Read N IGERIANS should thank the Almighty that it was President Goodluck Jonathan, and not Maj-Gen Muhammadu Buhari, who had to spend the better part of an hour waiting for the smart card reader to unfold his biometric details. Four card readers after, several consultations and part-time tutorials on operating the machine, the card reader did not recognize the President and his wife Dame Patience Jonathan. They left for home, returned, tried again, the same result. The President and his wife finally used the "incident form" at their voting centre in Otueke. What would have happened in Daura if the card reader rejected Buhari's card? Would the story not be that there were plans to embarrass Buhari? How would voters have reacted? Would it not confirm the All Progressives Congress, APC, allegation that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, hired an Israeli security expert to jam the card readers? Again, it was not...