Nigeria's opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), today suggested that presidential candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Goodluck Jonathan, alongside the party were not ready for the 2015 general elections.
Speaking in Port Harcourt, Rivers State Chairman of the APC, Dr. Davies Ikanya, posited that the development was making the PDP to continue to set what it termed different booby traps to truncate the elections.
Besides, he also pointed out that the PDP’s rejection of the card reader that was tested successfully by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday, was a sign that the ruling party was not ready for the election.
The party chairman further argued that the PDP had planned to rig the forthcoming election and linked the missing 14,000 permanent voter cards in the state to the desperation of the party.
According to him, "The rejection by PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan of the card reader machines which the Independent National Electoral Commission 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 (PDP) had hoped to rig its way to victory as usual and has purchased and hoarded the Permanent Voters Cards of many Nigerians but has been frustrated by INEC’s ingenuity in introducing the card reader machines, which has disorganized 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."
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