PDP’s opposition to card readers vindicates us - APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) said the PDP’s stiff opposition to the use of card readers in the rescheduled elections has confirmed the party’s stand that the ruling party is doing all within its powers to either prevent the election from holding or to rig it.

In a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party described as very curious the fact that the PDP that rushed to the press to deny the APC’s claims quickly turned around to confirm same.

The party had said at a press conference on Wednesday that the PDP wanted the military to be deployed during polls to harass and intimidate voters.

It said both the spokespersons of the PDP and the Jonathan Campaign Organization rushed to the press to deny the plan.

However, it said few hours later, the spokesman for the campaign organization told Nigerians that they would oppose the use of card readers.

“Obviously, these men are outsiders in their own party and it is now obvious that the opposition knows more about the inner workings of their party than they do,’’ it said,” the party said.

APC said that in an apparentlychoreographed show, some 15 portfolio political parties called a press conference to also announce that they will oppose the use of the Card Reader, vowing to boycott the elections and use a legal process to prevent the use of the machine.

The party said these syndicated threats are the latest indications of the mortal fear in the corridors of power about the machine that has now become the nemesis of election riggers and manipulators worldwide.