Over thirteen thousands lawyers across the country so far have participated and voted in the ongoing Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, national officers elections.
The Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA) gave this hint in a press statement by the Committee clarifying the cause of undeliverable that might have been experienced by voters.
According to the statement signed by it’s secretary, Mrs Cordelia Eke, voters who are yet to view the election link through their email or SMS, are advised to ensure that DND is deactivated on their phones and check Spam folder in their emails.
ECNBA also claimed that the election server makes five attempts to deliver to each phone number/email and all those failed attempts are reflected as undeliverable.
She however stated that subsequent attempt could still be successful if the challenge is resolved.
The Committee, however, listed five reasons some lawyers might have observed ‘undeliverable’ on the live voting platform.
The reasons include;
* Voter has an inactive Phone Number
* Voter has invalid Phone Number
* Voter has invalid Email Address
* Spam Filter on Voter’s email blocking direct delivery of emails. Voter can check Spam folder.
* DND is active on Voter’s phone and the message has been blocked by Telecommunication company.
The committee recommended the following actions to rectify the issue of DND
9mobile (Etisalat) numbers, Text START to 2442.
MTN numbers, Text ALLOW to 2442.
Glo numbers, Text CANCEL to 2442.
Airtel numbers, Text ALLOW to 2442.
Notices observed on the live voting platform as undeliverable can be attributable to any of the following 5 reasons:
ECNBA sad it can confirm from its last check that “at least 1,886 individuals of the Undeliverable Notices displayed on the live monitoring platform have since voted because they got the message through one of the two channels used – Email or SMS.
The committee also confirms that messages have been sent using local networks to up to 8,000 numbers with active DND advising them to deactivate same.
A total of 29,635 lawyers have been accredited to participate in the 2020 elections into national offices when the online platforms was open yesterday.
The Electoral Committee had at 6.30p.m. yesterday, July 29, circulated the final list of accredited voters while elections began at 11.00p.m. on the same day.
The exercise is expected to end today.
