Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku
Abubakar on Tuesday said they have uncover an electronic devise that agents of
the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, want to use to manipulate the card
readers during voting exercise.
Speaking at an
emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee of PDP in Abuja, Atiku
declared that the APC agents that are to use the devise were trained in China
and they are all back to Nigeria.
He explained
that the devised has capacity to make the card reader to work very fast or very
slow.
According to
him, the devise will be deplored to make the card readers slow in PDP
stronghold to delay accreditation of voters while it will make the card reader
work faster in APC controlled areas.
His words: “We
have just discovered that the APC have hired many of their operatives and have
taken them to China to be trained, and they have been so trained, and they are
back, and they are equipped with devices that are meant to slow or fasten our
card readers,”
“So, if you are
in the South-South, South-East and North-Central, you are likely to get your
card readers to be slowed by those APC operatives.
“We have seen
the machines; we have interviewed some of those who have gone on this training,
and we have passed that information to the campaign council to pass to you.
“But if you are
from the North-West or North-East the tendency is that they will use these
machines to fast-track the readings of your card readers, so that many of their
supporters can vote while disenfranchising the other three zones.
“I thought you
should know that we have supplied the information to the campaign council, and
you will even see the copy of the machine which each and everyone of those
operatives is to hold. It is like a telephone but that is its job. I felt I
should let you know, and you should be guided accordingly.”
Atiku also
debunked the claims of supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari that is a
reformed democratic.
“When you
people are talking about democracy, I have always said that Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari is not a democrat, he has never been a democrat.
“We started the
fight to drive the military, he was never there, he never participated. You can
see that he just wore the gab of democracy so that he can come back to power
and do whatever he is doing.
“So Gen Buhari
is not a democrat, he doesn’t believe in democracy, he is a lip service, he is
more of a power monger than a democrat.”
He added that
the utterances of President Buhari are painful reminders of the past military
era.
“My dear
Nigerians, party men and women, I am sure that you have followed with interest,
utterances from the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, and Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari in particular which is a painful reminder of the era of
dictatorship and military rule.
“General Buhari has consistently violated the constitution, he
failed to uphold the rule of law. Recent instances include the unconstitutional
suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria a day before he was supposed to
inaugurate the committee for the election tribunals that will decided any
appeals or whether our elections were subject to manipulation thereby crossing
the immutable line that divides the executives from the judiciary.
“Alas, my
concern does not end there. Only yesterday, Gen. Buhari said and I quote, ‘the
military and police should be ruthless. Anybody who disturbs the voting system
will do so at his own risk’ that is Gen. Buhari.
“It is shocking
for any head of state to utter such words in a democracy and we shall not
accept it from GeneraL Buhari in this country. We have fought more ruthless
dictators than him.”
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