PDP planning to use Russian hackers to rig 2019 elections- APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has revealed plans by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to use some persons of Russian nationality to manipulate the 2019 election.

The APC also said the PDP was insistent on President Muhammadu Buhari signing the electoral bill so as to provide its rigging plan a soft landing.

The part made the claim through its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena during an interview with journalists in Abuja.

Nabena said this was parts of the arrangements made by the PDP during a recent trip to Dubai.

He also expressed surprise that the PDP was afraid of using an act with which the last administration conducted the 2015 general elections.

He said, “The Act we are using now was created by the PDP. They created a law and they are now afraid to use it. That does not sound right. What the PDP are doing, they are playing out what they designed in Dubai.

“They started with the labour strike on minimum wage in order to cause problems in the country but it did not work; they brought ASUU strike, it did not work and then they tried to instigate fuel scarcity which also did not work.

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“These were all part of their grand design in Dubai and so the last bid is the Electoral Act. Look at the way they are going about it, saying if the president does not sign it, they will demonstrate on the streets. We are waiting for them.

“Normally if you vote, the Electoral Officer is supposed to count the votes and announce them before transmitting to the collation centre. But now you are telling us that they do not need to announce the votes, that they should just transmit.

“That is all part of their Dubai plan, trying to bring in Russian agents to hack the system. That is their joker. To hack into the system and manipulate true figures before transmitting them.”

 

By Babatunde Alao…

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