The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is fully ready to hold this years general elections, its Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has said.
Yakubu spoke following the successful conduct of its mock accreditation holding nationwide.
The mock accreditation exercise is meant to test the effectiveness of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) being deployed for the election nationwide as a replacement for the card reader.
The exercise is taking place in about 436 polling units in the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), with two polling units drawn from six local government areas and two Area councils of the FCT.
The INEC boss monitored the exercise in two polling units in Abuja Municipal Area Council and Bwari Area council, expressing satisfaction with the conduct of the exercise.
He said reports from across the country indicate a huge success of the exercise, with each voter being accredited under 30 seconds.
