The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has claimed that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has perfected its plans to alter Card readers that would be used in the upcoming general elections, Igberetvnews reports.
Atiku made this claim during the PDP’s 84th National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja on Tuesday. He accused the APC of planning to use telephone-like devices to slow down card readers in opposition strongholds, and fast track it in areas it has more supporters.
This, he claimed, means hordes of voters will be disenfranchised in the zones where APC is not favoured to win, while voting will be expedited in zones where the party is favoured to win.
“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,” Atiku said.
“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 interviwed 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, North-East or Sout-West, 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.”
