Why ruling party is scared’

THE Lagos State All Progressives Congress has alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) desperation to use cloned fake voter cards to rig the rescheduled elections “is responsible for its hollow campaign against the use of card readers” for the polls.
The party noted that the desperate manner the PDP was going about “fighting the use of a credible device to stop the use of stolen, fake and cloned voter card,” had exposed the ruling party as a cabal of electoral thieves, who predicate their strength on “farcically manipulating every election in  Nigeria”.
State APC Publicity Secretary Joe Igbokwe, in a statement in Lagos, urged the PDP to stop its opposition to efforts to curb electoral fraud, adding that the ruling party at the centre should face the masses on the strength of its performance in the last 16 years in power.
The party insisted that the time was up “for the PDP and its fraudulent ways of short-changing the country and subjecting it to the type of horrendous wreckage that has marked PDP’s unfortunate years in power”.
“Nigerians should recall that the Directorate of State Security (DSS) invaded the APC Data Centre in Lagos, vandalised the place and arrested some workers. We recall that the DSS was to follow this horrendous act with a specious, outlandish and false claim that the APC was cloning voter cards in the centre.”
The party said it denied the DSS claim and went on to show that the agency was up to some tricks for the PDP.
“Nigerians should recall that recently, Lagos APC revealed a sinister plan by the PDP to mop up voter cards of unsuspecting Lagosians and the card numbers of Lagosians in its wild dream of capturing Lagos for a dying PDP. We also observed that the PDP in Lagos, using a front of mainly traders and Igbo groups, has been boasting lousily of having millions of PVCs to execute its wonky dream.
“With the raging PDP frantic effort to stop the use of card readers to verify the authenticity of voter cards on election day, it is now clear to us that the PDP has been busy cloning voter cards and using voters PIN numbers to hack cards it intends to use to rig the 2015 election.
“It is now clearly obvious that in launching a brazen attack on the APC and raising the false claim that the APC was cloning cards, the DSS was providing covers for the PDP to clone millions of cards with which it hopes to rig the 2015 election, hence such diversionary trick by the PDP’s DSS.
“We challenge PDP to disprove this fact that now dustbins its deadly campaign for the stoppage of the use of card readers, which stands to unearth its rigging strategy this time around. If this is not the case, pray what harm do the card readers stand to inflict solely on the PDP? Why is it frantically trying to stop a device that will detect stolen and cloned voter cards, if it had not stolen enough cards and cloned millions of fake cards all over the country for the purpose of manipulating the 2015 elections?
“PDP is desperate as it continually runs out of dubious schemes to continue remaining in power and as Nigerians continue to suffer irreparably from PDP’s corrupt use of power to dehumanise and traumatise them. No one is deceived by PDP’s latest antics, but Nigerians must insist on free and credible election as an irreducible minimum for leadership selection.
“Card readers must be used in the coming election as a means of stopping such electoral frauds as stealing and cloning of voter cards, which PDP excels in.”