The ruling People's Democratic Party, PDP is not ready
for the forthcoming 2015 general elections, the Rivers State Chapter of the All
Progressives Congress, APC has stated.
Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, Rivers APC Chairman on
Sunday stated that this explains the desperation of the party to scuttle the
polls with one booby trap after another.
Speaking in Port Harcourt, the state capital, he said:
“The rejection by PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan of the card reader
machines which the Independent National Electoral Commission (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 PDP as a party has not
prepared well for the polls.
“It had hoped to rig its way to victory as usual and
has purchased and hoarded the Permanent Voters Cards (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 know 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 PDP in its bid to rig the elections”.
Chief Ikanya stated further that, “After succeeding to
postpone the February 14 presidential election to buy time and seeing that
Nigerians are hell-bent to sack his clueless and corruptive administration,
Jonathan and his failed party are now preoccupied with their satanic plot to
sack INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, and bring in someone who will do their
bidding by abandoning the use of card readers so as to create the necessary
foundation for them to rig. “Their rejection of the card reader machines after
the same machines were approved and the contract for their purchase awarded by
the Federal Executive Council under the watch of President Jonathan simply
demonstrates that Jonathan and his doomed party are either not ready for this
election or are looking for anything they can use as an excuse to abort it once
again”.
Dr. Ikanya stressed further that the last-minute
rejection of the card readers shows how jittery Jonathan and PDP have become,
as they are aware that PDP can never win any credible election in Nigeria.
He said that enough is enough and challenged Nigerians
to rise as one and insist that the card readers must be used for the polls.
The Rivers APC Chairman declared that it is too
late in the game to change the rules, adding: “PDP and President Jonathan have
no hiding place anymore. They should be ready to face APC at the polls on March
28 and April 11 or get ready to face the wrath of Nigerians, who cannot afford
to bear another four years of suffering and gnashing of teeth under Jonathan
and his evil party, the PDP”.
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