The All Progressives Congress
Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO), has said that the reason
the PDP and the presidency are becoming more and more opposed to the use
of Card Readers as being proposed by INEC is because the party hopes to
manipulate the electoral process.
The APCPCO in a statement by its
Director of Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu said that it views
the ploy by the ruling PDP and the Presidency as the precursor to the
move to stampede the resignation of Professor Attahiru Jega before the
appointment of a pliable lackey, who will do the hatchet job of stopping
the use of the Card Readers.
“Aside the huge financial investment
involved in the procurement of the Card Readers, the PDP’s desire to
hoodwink the Nigerian people on this anti-rigging device, is not just
subterranean but an affront on the independence of the electoral body.
“We are equally aware that this is the
latest gambit of the ruling Party in its desire to thwart the electoral
wishes of majority of Nigerian electorate. We are aware also of the use
of its tested and well-oiled rigging machine of unregistered voters and
accentuation of same by the use of soldiers that had been specially
trained and reserved for that nefarious purpose.
“We have said it that, based on the
ruling of the Federal High Court, Sokoto against the use of Soldiers for
Election duties, our Party is opposed to the use of soldiers for the
Election Days on 28th March and 11th April, 2015.
“We insist that the use of Card Readers
for authenticating the propriety of the Permanent Voters’ Cards
presented and ultimately, accreditation of Voters, as envisioned by
INEC. These, in our estimation as a credible Party, remain the
irreducible minimum that must form the basis for the conduct of free,
fair, and credible elections on 28th March and 11th April, 2015.
“We call on all Nigerians to remain
vigilant and we, on our part, shall remain alive to our responsibility
in galvanizing the citizenry for assuring on the virility of the
Nigerian nation. Indeed, eternal vigilance is the price of our liberty.”
The APC has a theory on why the PDP is now against the use of card readers for the elections
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