As the governorship election in Osun State draws nearer, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state has raised alarm that some “electoral criminals” have perfected a rigging method that allegedly compromises the electronic card reading machine of the INEC and disables its ability to properly identify ownership of the PVC.
The party said this criminal activity will ensure that several people can use the PVC without the card reader uploading the photograph to identify its valid owner.
The state Chairman, Prince Gboyega Famodun made revealed this during a world press conference he addressed in osogbo today.
The party quoted ‘reliable’ sources for these allegation.
Prince Famodun further alleged that this rigging technique was successfully used during the last Osun west senatorial bye election, which resulted in PDP having more votes than it would have had legitimately.
Another troubling revelation at the press conference was that those “electoral criminals used to compromise the electronic card reader were the youth Corpers in charge of operating the device”.
The party also alleged that this rigging technique is executed at a critical time during the accreditation process.
The APC further claimed that ‘encouraged by their success during the last senatorial bye election in the Osun West Senatorial district, the criminal differs now plan to extend their operation the state on Saturday during the governorship election.
‘As a result of this concerning development, the APC is urging INEC to allow party agents scrutinise the verification process in order to confirm the PVC holder’s image on the card reader.
Prince Famodun also urged ‘ that security agents should equally be involved in the process so that youth Corpers who will be used to perform this fraud directly during the verification process should be under strict observation so that the card reader will not be compromised, the APC insisted.
Prince Famodun said that this information is especially intended to alert INEC to tighten security around the processing and voting enabled by the card reader.
