#NigeriaDecides: APC hails Nigeria's electoral agency on card readers' use, says party will win elections

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has congratulated the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on its decision to use the card reader for the forthcoming elections.

In a statement recently released by Dele Alake, Director of Strategic Communications of the party’s Presidential Campaign Organisation, the APC said that with INEC’s decision to use the card readers and its insistence on accepting only the Permanent Voters Card (PVC) for voting, a massive blow has been dealt to the carefully laid out rigging plans of the ruling party.

The party further disclosed that INEC’s decision has derailed the PDP’s plans to massively deploy cloned voters cards on the days of the elections. Unconfirmed reports said the ruling Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) had imported foreign equipments and engaged foreign experts to produce cloned PVCs to use during the elections. With the agency's decision to employ the card reading machines however, this would prove a near impossible task.

Alake called on all Nigerians to back INEC in what he called its “patriotic decision” so that the forces of retrogression will not sway the electoral umpire to change its mind.