The
People’s Democratic Party has condemned in strong terms the decision of the
Indepedent National Electoral Commission to ban the use of smart phones in
polling units.
The
National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, accused INEC of a
surreptitious move to prevent the global community from knowing its plan to rig
the 2019 general elections.
The
Special Adviser the Governor of Bayelsa State on Media Relations, Mr. FIdelis
Soriwei, quoted Secondus as having made the comment during a meeting with
stakeholders from Bayelsa East Senatorial District in Yenagoa on Tuesday.
Secondus
said that it was quite puzzling that the commission would attempt to prevent
the use of smart phone, which he described the easiest means of communication
in the society, during elections.
He
stressed that the decision to ban the use of smart phones was the strategy of
INEC and the APC to rig the 2019 elections.
He
argued that the commission by that singular act had sent the country to the
dark, primitive era.
The
PDP Chairman also restated his opposition of President Muhammadu Buhari’s
refusal to sign the amended Electoral Act in a bid to avoid the use of card
readers.
He
said, “We have all heard what the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu, said
about the decision to ban the use of smart phones in the polling units. All
over the world, a smart phone is the easiest way of communication.
“What
they have said clearly shows that the commission in connivance with the All
Progressives Congress have perfected a rigging strategy for the next election.
“In
fact, INEC has sent Nigeria back to the primitive days.
“The
same plan to rig the 2019 election is responsible for the refusal of the
President to sign the amended Electoral Act because the card reader must be
used.
“Our
position is that INEC is wrong, there is no where in the constitution or in the
electoral act , where smart phones are banned.
“INEC,
if you throw this country to crisis, you will be held responsible.”
Secondus
said that Nigeria was under siege as the Federal Government had introduced an
obnoxious suspension of the people right to freedom in the country.
He
expressed the alarm that more people had been killed in the country in the past
one year that those killed in the Nigerian civil war from 1967 to 1970.
He
lamented that the APC had introduced dictatorial tendencies that were worse
that the repression witnessed under the military.
Secondus
also accused the Federal Government òf borrowing N11 trillion in three years in
spite of the huge amount of money budgeted yearly to run the government .
He
said that the nation’s debt profile had hit the highest of all time under the
APC-led Federal Government.
“We
have borrowed N11 trillion and you don’t feel the impact of the budget except
in Daura.
“Nigeria
has witnessed nepotism, that has never been felt this way in this country.
“The
international community is worried about Nigeria. The country is broke, our
debt profile has risen to highest level.
“Nigeria
is under siege. Freedom and rights have denied our people. .The country is
going through very difficult and trying the moments.”
In
his remarks, Governor Dickson urged the people of the Niger Delta to give the
expected support to Secondus in his efforts to lead the PDP to electoral
victory in 2019.
He
described the PDP as the party of the Niger Delta
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