The APC says this move is to justify the PDP’s fears about the use of the card readers and ultimately to scuttle the polls.
This allegation was contained in a statement in Lagos on Monday by the APC’s national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, via the press release website, www.apcpressreleases.com.
The APC said,”We can authoritatively inform Nigerians that the morbid fear of card readers by the Jonathan Administration and the PDP has now been translated into concrete action. They have hired an Israeli, Gyora Berger, to do the dirty job of jamming the card readers.
”To those who might accuse us of crying wolf, they should realise that every alarm we have raised in the past has been true, including that the Jonathan administration was pushing for the postponement of the elections and that they are mortally afraid of the use of PVCs and card readers”
The party added that the Israeli was hired specifically to develop three prototype card reader jammers, which he had accomplished, developing three such jammers, with ranges of 25 metres, 50 metres and 100 metres, to be carried in the pockets of trusted PDP stalwarts on election day with a view to disabling the card readers within the stated radius.
The party said apart from disabling the card readers, the jammers would also disable all telephones, iPads, etc, within the radius of those carrying them on their persons.
It equally alleged that an order had been placed for 75,000 of the jammers at a cost of $200 each, bringing the total cost to $15m.
The APC claimed the jammers would be air freighted to Nigeria next week.
It added,”The plan is to deploy the card jammers to the areas deemed to be the strongholds of the APC, such as the North-west, North-East, North-Central and the South-West.
”It is the planned procurement of the jammers that has given the confidence to the administration and party officials to continuously boast that Buhari will never rule Nigeria, and also the reason why a chief of the PDP boasted last week that the card readers won’t work, thus advising INEC to make alternative arrangements.”
The party said the Israeli, who had agreed to do the dirty job for “a desperate Jonathan administration and the PDP, is an enemy of Nigeria and Nigerians, who does not mind if the nation burns, as long as he has collected his pay for the dirty job for which he has been hired.”
It will be recalled that members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Katsina state have returned their party membership cards to the party secretariat.
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