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 said.
Rivers APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, said
Sunday in Port Harcourt that this explains the desperation of the party to
scuttle the polls with one booby trap after another.
His words: “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 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 PDP in its bid to rig the elections,” Dr. Ikanya said.
“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.”
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