The opposition party said the Israeli was hired specifically to develop three prototype card reader jammers, and had already developed three of such jammers (25 metres, 50 metres and 100 metres range) to be carried in the pockets of trusted PDP stalwarts on Election Day with a view to disabling the card readers within the state radius.
It also alleged that apart from disabling the card readers, the jammers would also disable all telephones, iPads, etc, within the state radius of those carrying them on their persons.
“An order has been placed for 75,000 pieces of the jammers at a cost of $200 per piece, bringing the total cost to $15 million.
The jammers will be air-freighted to Nigeria next week,” it added.
“The plan is to deploy the card jammers to the areas deemed to be the strongholds of the APC, such as the North-west, North-east, North-central and the South-west.
“It is the planned procurement of the jammers that have given the confidence to the Administration and party officials to continuously boast that Buhari will never rule Nigeria, and also the reason why a chieftain of the PDP boasted last week that the card readers won’t work, thus advising INEC to make alternative arrangements.”
The party said the Israeli, who had agreed to do the dirty job for a desperate Jonathan Administration and the PDP, was an enemy of Nigeria and Nigerians.
It said he “does not mind if the nation burns, as long as he has collected his pay for the dirty job for which he has been hired.”
The APC said because it had become a movement being propelled by the people themselves, “it is difficult, if not impossible, for the Jonathan Administration and the PDP to succeed in their devilish intentions of rigging, sabotaging or scuttling the forthcoming polls.”
“We have consistently said power resides in the people, irrespective of what the government of the day might think. When the people are determined to vote out any government, no amount of money, evil plots and shenanigans can save that government, as the Jonathan Administration will find out in two weeks.”
But the Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has described the APC’s allegation as wild and baseless.
In a statement yesterday, Fani-Kayode said the federal government and the PDP did not have any plans to sabotage the card readers and did not need to indulge in such shady, sinister and tardy practices.
“We view this wild and baseless allegation with amusement,” he said. “Frankly, the APC deserves to be pitied. So desperate are they for power that their latest strategy is to come up with a different lie for every day of the week.
“They have lost control of their senses; their imagination has gone wild and they see things that are simply not there.
“This latest allegation is absurd; it is not rooted in truth; it is irrational and it is illogical. It is clear that the opposition are already preparing the grounds and making excuses for their own defeat.
“They are running scared and they are already preparing the minds of their supporters for their imminent failure at the polls.
“Instead of saying something tangible and attempting to ginger up and encourage their supporters, all they indulge in is giving them a daily dose of sub-standard fairy tales and dirty lies.
“They should stop all this nonsense and desist from making these wild and baseless allegations.
“President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP do not have any plans to sabotage the card readers and neither do we need to indulge in such shady, sinister and tardy practices.
“We look forward to the elections, which will commence in two weeks time, and we have no doubt that the overwhelming number of the Nigerian people will vote for our candidates and support our party.”
The opposition party said the Israeli was hired specifically to develop three prototype card reader jammers, and had already developed three of such jammers (25 metres, 50 metres and 100 metres range) to be carried in the pockets of trusted PDP stalwarts on Election Day with a view to disabling the card readers within the state radius.
“An order has been placed for 75,000 pieces of the jammers at a cost of $200 per piece, bringing the total cost to $15 million.
“The plan is to deploy the card jammers to the areas deemed to be the strongholds of the APC, such as the North-west, North-east, North-central and the South-west.
It said he “does not mind if the nation burns, as long as he has collected his pay for the dirty job for which he has been hired.”
But the Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has described the APC’s allegation as wild and baseless.
“This latest allegation is absurd; it is not rooted in truth; it is irrational and it is illogical. It is clear that the opposition are already preparing the grounds and making excuses for their own defeat.
“They are running scared and they are already preparing the minds of their supporters for their imminent failure at the polls.
“President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP do not have any plans to sabotage the card readers and neither do we need to indulge in such shady, sinister and tardy practices.
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