The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed
as hogwash the so-called findings of the DSS
following its raid on the party’s offices in Lagos,
saying the ‘findings’ presented to the media by the
agency,Wednesday, is a great disservice to Nigeria
and an embarrassment to all intelligence-gathering
organizations around the world.
In a statement, Wednesday, by its National
Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party
also described the timing of the release of the
‘findings’ as a plot orchestrated in collusion with
the PDP to distract the APC from its ongoing
campaigns for next month’s elections.
It described as disingenuous, flimsy, premeditated,
partisan and an irritant the conclusion that the APC
had an ”articulated plan to inflate the party’s
membership data as well as hack into INEC’s voter
registration database through the creation of party
membership forms and cards to match INEC’s
voters register across the country”.
”First the DSS and the PDP said the APC was cloning
Permanent Voters Cards at the raided office,
without a shred of evidence. Now, after a
‘painstaking’ investigation, the DSS has found out
that the APC was only planning to inflate its
membership data and then hack into INEC’s
database. And this is the outcome of its massive,
months-long investigations?
”This would have been funny if it were not from a
primary domestic intelligence agency saddled with
a great responsibility. Can this wishy-washy report
stand any serious scrutiny? Can any serious
intelligence gathering agency anywhere else in the
world take this report seriously? With these kind of
findings, one can now understand why Boko Haram
has continued to strike at times and places of its
own choosing without any prior knowledge by our
all-powerful DSS.
”Even the presentation of the report by a poorly-
trained and highly-politicized spokesperson of the
DSS worsened the so-called findings. Why would the
spokesperson of a national agency sound like a
megaphone for the ruling party, freely castigating
the opposition spokesman and ”a number of
uninformed members of the public”? Why does she
have to go personal in presenting a report that
supposedly is in the national interest?
”We have always warned that our democracy is in
clear and present danger, not just from desperate
politicians, but also from institutions of state that
have compromised in their roles and resorted to
crass lawlessness. The DSS’ ‘findings’ today have
given us another reason to repeat this warning.
”While we are willing to meet the DSS in court, we
can confidently say that the ‘confessions’ extracted
from the arrested persons, after they were
subjected to incredible acts of torture, cannot even
stand in any court of law,” APC said.
The party recalled that in its statement of Dec. 5th
2014, it accused the DSS of resorting to the use of
torture to obtain forced confessions from those
who were arrested during the first raid on the
party’s Data Centre in Ikeja.
”In that statement, we called the action of the DSS
a contravention of the UN Convention against
Torture to which Nigeria is a signatory and a
violation of the citizens’ fundamental human rights.
”We also said the DSS shackled the hands and legs
of those arrested and blindfolded them while they
were being taken to
Abuja. The arrested persons remained in chains
even at the dark detention cell where they were
made to sleep on the bare floor for the 10 days
they were detained illegally.
”Guns were pointed at their heads by DSS
personnel who threatened to shoot them, while a
pregnant woman among those who were arrested
was denied access to her drugs even when she
started bleeding due to the torture to which she
was subjected by the DSS. Now the DSS has
confirmed what we said in that press statement. Is
anyone still surprised at the action of countries
that are distancing themselves from Nigeria over
human rights violations?” it queried.
APC said the impending release of the ‘great
findings’ by the DSS after its world class
investigations must have been the reason why the
agency recently threatened it would arrest any
politician who makes inciting comments, adding:
”Apparently the DSS needed to silence all so that no
one will dare criticize its earth-shaking ‘findings’.”
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/dss-findings-embarrassment-apc/

DSS is now an arm of PDP! Shame on the organisation.

Obinoscopy and Ishilove,front page.

Lol.... APC is gradually being exposed for who they are

Their presidential flagbearer is without certificate
They've been busy cloning PVC cards
Others are campaigning and they are busy threatening parallel govt
Buhari is busy urging Muslims to vote Muslims while commanding his boys to kill infidels
Bokoharam has become their campaign point

Only fools and enemies of Nigeria will support that evil party.

It's a pity the dss has chosen to embarrass itself in this manner, its really shameful. First they claimed Apc was cloning PVCs, later they changed story to hacking inec, today they are displaying Apc's form in a press conference for that matter. What a shame.

That DSS can step forward with this flipflopping junk explains why a lot things are going zigzag in Nigeria..
It is simple: our Intelligence people are not intelligent.

APC and PDP are just making public spectacle of themselves. All this propaganda is not doing anybody any good. Trust the Nigerian man to corrupt anything brought under nose.

perfect reply, DSS is really a shame to Nigeria. Ogar, even more shameful

Cry me a river APC and their evil plan has been busted

Let Lai Mohammed continue to justify corruption within the party's administration.

Is this not same plot they were denying when their agents were arrested in Imo State on a rigging mission to Anambra State?

This is how they intended to rig Anambra State guber elections planned from Osun State with 180+ fake Corpers.

Change to hell fire, my foot.

They sponsored BH to make sure dogs and baboon soak in blood now they are cloning the pvc and doing multiple registration. Shame on you all supporter of APC

Ngwakwe:
Let lai Mohammed continue to justify corruption within its administration.

This is how they intended to rig Anambra State guber election.

The way you reason baffles me sometimes. INEC raided APCs data office since last year. Now here are the three accusations against APC since then:
1) They claimed APC was cloning PVCs in their data center and also said that they would release evidences soon. Believe me.that would have been a big hit on APC if they were able to release evidences but till today, NO EVIDENCE HAS BEEN provided. APC has been vindicated, DSS have made a fool of themselves once again.

2) They accused APC this year (after two months) of trying to hack into INECs database and increase the number of their members (*laughs*).
*Does this make any sense to you?
*Does INEC keep a database of APCs Members?
*How can you hack an offline database?
*How would increasing the number of APC members on the "online database" give APC more votes?
Once again APC has been vindicated and everybody's is so disappointed in DSS's foolery...you can read the comments on Punch

3) Now APC is being accused of double membership of its own members on it's own database which is in no.way connected to INECs so-called database??

No. 3 contradicts No. 2. DSS claimed in No 2 that APC were trying to hack into the INEC database to increase their members.

DSS now shows us hardcopies of APCs doubled Membership data printed in APCs office. I.was expecting them to.show evidence of the hacked INEC site and double registration. DSS makes a fool of itself once more.

Ngwake 4 questions for you?

1) What does this issue have to do with anambra elections?

2) Can you objectively tell me exactly where it is stated that a Party should be prosecuted for having double registrations on their own database which could possibly be a mistake?

3) Can you tell me exactly how having double membership data on APC database or INECs hacked site is going to swing in more votes for APC?

4) Is it safe to call you a fool if you can't provide answers to those questions?

Redoil:
They sponsored BH to make sure dogs and baboon soak in blood now they are cloning the pvc and doing multiple registration. Shame on you all supporter of APC

(*Laughs loud @bolded)

Berem. once said your brain is filled with Palm Oil..looks like that's actually true if you typed that up there. I don't think you're keeping track of the busted propaganda against Buhari.

* Bokoharam Sponsor - Busted
* Dogs and Baboon - Busted

I'm no dog or baboon, Nigerians are humans and not dogs or baboons. Maybe you and your fellow dolts are the dogs and baboons Buhari was talking about.

You should ask DSS to provide evidence of the clones PVCs they accused APC of since last year. shameless people.

Ngwakwe:
Let lai Mohammed continue to justify corruption within its administration.

This is how they intended to rig Anambra State guber election.

dont mind those clowns whose stock in trade are to steal kill and clown card with multiple registration

Give us another white lie! Bunch of haramite
Its gEJ vs no Contestant!

O Lord pls save this country from the impending doom. This PDP agents are looking for any possible way whether legal or illegal to frustrate the APC.
No matter the outcome of their investigation, it will never stop me and my family to vote GMB.