APC accuses PDP of cloning PVC to rig Osun gov poll

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of grand plot to clone Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) for use to rig all coming elections, starting from the Osun state governorship elec- tion.
The ruling party, however, urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the security agencies to take note of the threat.
In a statement signed in Abuja yesterday, the APC spokesman, Yekini Nabena, said when his party learnt of what he described as shocking disclosure, it doubted the veracity and dismissed it as one of the fake news in circulation, until further checks backed by media reports confirmed the statement was indeed issued by the PDP National spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan.
Nabena said the PDP’s statement on Tuesday is particularly worrisome because it coincided with the situation field report it received of “the PDP cloning Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) for use in the Osun governorship election.” The statement went further: “The PDP’s now public rigging plans is a red flag that require urgent probe by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and relevant security agencies.
We also call on wellmeaning Nigerians and civil society organizations to speak out and resist the PDP’s retrogressive plan which threatens our democracy.
“Perhaps the PDP needs to be reminded that our democracy is maturing and its crude election rigging methods such as ballot box snatching (recently displayed during last weekend by-election in Kogi state), announcement of concocted election results and other anomalies are no longer acceptable in our elections.
“We are confident that the good people of Osun will resist the PDP’s deployment to takeover Osun state by force.
The people’s will; the people’s vote is supreme.
It must be respected and defended.
That is democratic, progressive and the right thing