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Electoral bill: PDP plans to use Russians to hack INEC server, says APC

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5 years ago

December 14, 2018

The All Progressives Congress has accused the Peoples Democratic Party of contacting some Russian agents in a bid to hack the Independent National Electoral Commission’ s server during the 2019 general elections.
The party said this accounted for why the opposition party desperately wanted President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the 2018 Electoral Amendment Bill .

The APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary , Yekini Nabena, revealed this in an interview with journalists in Abuja .

Nabena also wondered why the PDP was now ill at ease with the same law that it had used in conducting past elections in the country , if it had no ulterior motive .
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 .

“ 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 . ”