The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced that President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party were not ready for the upcoming general elections.
The statement was issued by the Rivers State Chairman of the APC, Dr. Davies Ikanya, on March 8, 2015 in Port Harcourt, Punch reports.
According to the chairman, the development was making the PDP to continue to set different booby traps to scuttle the elections.
Ikanya assured that the PDP’s rejection of the card reader that was tested successfully by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on March 8, 2015, was a vivid sign that the ruling party was not ready for the elections.
Ikanya also accused the PDP of planning to rig the upcoming elections and linked the missing 14,000 Permanent Voter Cards in the state to the desperation of the party.
“The rejection by the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan of the card reader machines which INEC has successfully tested and intends to use for the March 28 and April 11 general elections did not come to us as a surprise because the PDP as a party has not prepared well for the polls.
“It (the PDP) had hoped to rig its way to victory as usual and has purchased and hoarded the PVCs of many Nigerians but has been frustrated by INEC’s ingenuity in introducing the card reader machines, which has disorganised its rigging plot.
“We can now understand why 14,000 PVCs of the Rivers State electorate have been declared missing by INEC as these are some of the cards stolen by the PDP in its bid to rig the elections,” Ikanya added.
State Assistant Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Samuel Nwanosike, expressed his disagreement with the state APC. Reacting to the accusations he insisted that though President Jonathan and the PDP were ready for the election, the issue of using the card readers during the election would disenfranchise many voters.
Meanwile, the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has also declaimed against the use of card readers. According to him, INEC plans to use them as a fraud capable of destroying the elections.
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