Nigeria, March 8 -- A total of 3, 008 card readers will be used for Saturday's governorship and state House of Assembly elections, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kaduna State, Abdullahi Kaugama, has said.

Mr Kaugama said this while addressing journalists at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters in Ungwar Rimi Friday afternoon.

He said that the commission would cancel votes where card readers were not used, warning voters against the rejection of the device at polling units.

"Where there is no card reader, there will be no voting," he said appealing to the electorate to cooperate with INEC officials.

He said further, "We have given refresher training to all our card reader' operators in the state." ...