Nigeria's ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has insisted that the utilisation of the Electronic Management Tool (EMT) for the 2015 elections is encouraging.
However, the party in a statement through its National Chairman, Adamu Muazu insisted that Nigeria is not prepared to be used as a guinea pig.
While suggesting that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should ensure a successful test-run before approving same for use in the elections, the PDP National Chairman reiterated that INEC management must get everything right before introducing the measure.
According to Muazu, "What is happening today in INEC has been highlighted to them via letters from our party to Jega's office on so many issues including the fraud of PVC we anticipated, including the manipulation. We all said this in writing to INEC.
"It is because we are the ruling party, we don’t want to be unruly because if we were the opposition, we would make a lot of noise and say a lot of things.
"In their own sense of judgment, how does Professor (Attahiru) Jega, who is the leader of INEC, exonerate himself from disenfranchising 23 million Nigerians and telling the world that he is ready for elections; and we are saying that he is not ready, 23 million out of the 68 million registered voters, by his personal submission in the Council of State that was held last week to review the preparedness or otherwise of INEC to conduct the election.
"Twenty three million PVCs were either produced and not distributed or not produced at all. This must be highlighted and made known to the world. Your report must be very explicit to explain what has happened.
"We must not have 100 per cent as the threshold for distribution and collection but 23 million out of 68 million eligible voters or 34 per cent as the INEC Chairman himself confirmed is unacceptable by any standard."
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