{"id":15403,"date":"2019-02-16T05:05:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T05:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15403"},"modified":"2019-02-16T05:05:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T05:05:50","slug":"how-we-neutralised-plans-to-rig-elections-by-atiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15403","title":{"rendered":"How we neutralised plans to rig elections, by Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, Friday night, stated that the Managing Director of Activate Technologies Limited, Mohammed Sani Musa, whose company supplied the machines used in printing the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Niger East Senatorial district for Saturday\u2019s poll.
\nIn a statement Friday night by his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Mr. Phrank Shuaibu,Atiku stated that the revelation was a result of its extensive intelligence gathering network to identify and prevent the ruling party\u2019s brazen and ultimately failed attempts to rig the results.
\n\u201cIt is public knowledge that Sani Musa, popularly known as Sani 313 is a card carrying member of the APC and a close associate of several stalwarts of the party, including President Muhammadu Buhari who apparently pushed his nomination\u201d, the statement reads.
\n\u201cBut shockingly, the APC Senatorial candidate for Zone B of Niger State, Mr. Mohammed Musa, has a contract with INEC to supply key voting materials in an election he is participating in, which is a clear conflict of interest and raises questions of probity and oversight in the issuing of INEC contracts.
\n\u201cThe INEC contract was to \u2018upgrade\u2019 the card readers and to print PVC cards. Further investigations have shown that the \u2018upgrade\u2019 consisted of pre-programming the card readers to accept fake replica PVCs (copies of genuine PVCs) that the firm printed in Nigeria. These two activities were undertaken so that the APC could boost its vote tally in its strongholds or force votes in Polling Units at PDP strongholds to be null and void by over-voting .
\n\u201cOur investigation also identified the seven States where this activity was due to take place and we have therefore informed the Observer Community and our own extensive network of over 176,000 Party Agents so that they can forestall this activity by checking cards as allowed under INEC guidelines.
\n\u201cGiven that that Mr. Musa\u2019s previous company, Act Technologies, had a contract to supply and install PVC card printers in the INEC Headquarters, it does beg the question why Mr Musa\u2019s new company, Activate Technologies, was given a subsequent contract to print PVC cards itself?
\n\u201cOther investigations have revealed that an employee and Director of Activate Technologies and an APC member, Mr. Mohammed Keffi, was filmed at Abuja Airport Domestic Departure Lounge on 29th December opening an official INEC envelope and then handling multiple ballot forms which he was checking off against his mobile phone.
\n\u201cSources also confirmed that this person was one of the people who was loading the fake card numbers into the \u2018upgraded\u2019 card readers in the Residence of the former Governor of Akwa Ibom, as well as other \u2018Card Reader Farms\u2019 in Abuja and Kano. These \u2018farms\u2019 are under guard by members of Government Security agencies.\u201d
\nAtiku said while Alhaji Sani Musa has the right to hold any public office in spite of his line of business, it is morally unjustifiable to allow a well-known supplier of sensitive INEC materials to partake in an election in which the key materials to be used for the poll were supplied by him.
\n\u201cA search at the Corporate Affairs Commission showed that most of the directors in Act Technologies are the same as those in Activate Technologies. The directors of Activate Technologies except Musa (now APC candidate) include: Abubakar Musa, Kabiru Abdullahi Bawa, Suleiman Danladi, Akinsuyi Akin Najeem. Activate Technologies located on Ganges Street, Maitama, learnt that is shares the same address as Act Technologies.\u201d
\nHe lamented that Activate Technologies was given contracts by INEC to supply PVCs for the 2019 general elections in spite of the fact that the owner of the firm is a candidate in tomorrow\u2019s poll.
\n\u201cA copy of one of many such contracts with reference number INEC\/HQ\/PROC\/ICT\/S106\/1 dated October 4, 2017 and signed by the Secretary to INEC, Augusta Ogakwu, stated that the firm would need to print 112, 218 PVCs, \u201d Atiku said.
\n\u201cMr Musa had attempted to hide his ownership via proxy shareholders who have been revealed as members of his own family. However his position as Founder and MD of Activate Technology Limited was clumsily exposed to the world via his Linked-in page where he bragged about his firm to secure more business for it.
\n\u201cOur candidate and the Party has conducted extensive research into what the APC will be attempting to do to shore up their collapsed vote share in these elections having studied what we call the \u201cOsun Playbook\u201d. We have been able to implement extensive preventative measures to pre-empt their plans.
\n\u201cSo the Nigerian public can go out and vote confident in the knowledge that their vote will count. Our candidate has said on record that \u201ceven if you do not vote for me, please go out and vote as this election is not about me, it is about Nigeria and your future\u201d, the statement added.
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, Friday night, stated that the Managing Director of Activate Technologies Limited, Mohammed Sani Musa, whose company supplied the machines used in printing the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Niger East Senatorial district for Saturday\u2019s poll. In a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}