The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said no amount of “dirty tricks”
employed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to play on the
intelligence of Nigerians will drown its clear criminal act of cloning
of INEC’s Permanent Voter Card (PVC).
PDP National Legal Adviser, Barr. Victor Kwon in a statement on Thursday
said “in posting series of lame denials, even when caught in the act and
attempting to compare their crime to the American Watergate political
scandal, the APC has clearly exposed its culpability and confirmed our
stand regarding their criminal tendencies and penchant for deceit and
lies.”
Insisting that any APC leader found to be behind the crime should be
prosecuted, the ruling party said members of the APC should hide their
faces in shame describing them as “desperate and disgraceful lot whose
activities have continued to stain the image of the country”.
“It is to say the least despicable that instead of apologizing to
Nigerians for this heinous crime, the APC leaders have resorted to lies
and dirty tricks in an attempt to play the victim and blame the PDP for
their self inflicted woes.
“In referring to Watergate scandal involving American President Richard
Nixon and the bugging of Democratic National Committee (DNC)
headquarters, the APC stood the truth on its head and tried to play on
the intelligence of Nigerians by trying to politicize an obvious
criminal act
“The truth remains that the APC is now hysterical and feverish having
been caught in the act. They have been exposed and no amount of antics
by their leaders will remove their culpability that deserves the full
weight of the law.
“The questions APC must answer are; is their attempt to hack into INEC’s
data-base not criminal? What were the 31‘Ghana must go’ bags of INEC PVC
specimen doing in their so-called data office in Lagos? We are indeed
appalled at the extent the APC can go in their desperation for power for
which they have now become notorious.
“We therefore urge our security agencies not to allow themselves to be
intimidated by the APC, but hasten investigations on this crime. This is
especially as we restate the fear by majority that the APC may have
already started cloning ballot papers and other election documents in
their quest to achieve political power by all means.