INEC designing special card reader, result sheets for APC, Secondus tells ECOWAS

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was preparing “special smart card readers to rig the 2019 general elections” in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Secondus said manipulation of elections in 2019 would be a recipe for crisis in the country, adding that history will be unkind to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu if he fails to conduct free and fair elections.

The PDP chief who spoke while hosting the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) Election Monitoring Team, led by Mohammad Conteh at the party’s National Campaign Headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday, alleged that INEC was working in conjunction with the APC, to rig the elections.

A statement by Secondus’ Media Adviser, Ike Abonyi, said: “They have finished their rigging arrangements with preloaded cards and special election result sheets all doctored to favour the ruling APC.

“The INEC Chairman has no strong will to follow our electoral laws and constitution as well as the laid down international standards in his processes towards 2019 and we want to let the world know this before it happens.

“They have finished plots to isolate states of Kano, Benue, Rivers,  Bauchi, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Imo, Kwara and Lagos for disruption during the general election so they can plan well to mobilize.”