By Samuel Ogidan
Abuja
Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO) yesterday questioned the credibility of the forthcoming presidential election scheduled for Saturday, alleging that the card readers had been compromised.
The campaign organisation said the master key to permanent voter card (PVC) data processed by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Smart Card Reader (SCR) had been compromised.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, the Head of Media and Publicity of PDPPCO, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, said that not only were the card readers compromised but were supplied by a staunch supporter of All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.
He said: “Our concerns stem from the fact that the moving spirit and a major shareholder and board member of the company that supplied the card reader system and machines to INEC is not only a friend of but also an ardent and keen supporter of General Muhammadu Buhari and the APC.
That man’s name is Sani Musa and he is indeed the main force behind the company. The company’s name is Act Technologies Ltd. and the Chairman of the company is one Engineer SK Danladi.
“How and why INEC would give the contract to supply the card readers to a fanatical APC supporter and to a man whose other company was officially blacklisted by INEC a couple of years ago for sharp practices, needs to be explained.
Sani Musa has expressed his undying support for the APC and General Buhari and his hatred and virulent opposition to the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan openly and publicly on his Facebook wall.”
Fani-Kayode noted that the master Encryption/Decryption key that can unlock and stimulate the PVC data processed by SCR has been compromised.
He said the master key should rightly be in the possession of INEC, as the neutral umpire, under the most stringent access control protocol imaginable and not freely in the possession of a partisan actor.