Ebun Francis|
The presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday alleged that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has procured the services of China-trained operatives to disrupt card readers functions in PDP strongholds during Saturday’s presidential and national assembly elections.
Atiku who made the claims at the emergency meeting of the PDP national executive council in Abuja, also claimed operatives would hasten the speed of card readers in President Muhammadu Buhari’s strongholds.
He said, “We have just discovered that the APC has 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.
“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 every one 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.”
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