By Onoja Innocent

The governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress in Delta State, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, has insisted that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, must use card readers to accredit voters before voting in the upcoming elections.

In a statement by the Director of Media and Political Communication of the O’tega Emerhor Campaign Organisation, Dr. Fred Oghenesivwe, Emerhor faulted calls by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for discarding the use of card readers

He said: “How can they say card readers should not be used because they are untested? We have to start from somewhere and the time to start using card readers is now. Moreover, INEC has been test running the device and even demonstrated it in the Senate chambers. Between now and the elections, they still have time to continue test running and perfecting the use of the card reader.

“Those clamouring for the dumping the card readers are looking for a window to rig the elections. Rigging has always made nonsense of the will of our people. Now that we have a device that will help make genuine votes count, some people are complaining. They want to abandon a very useful device that has cost billions in tax payers’ money. APC will resist any such calls.”

He added that the Femi Fani-Kayode series of attacks on APC presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, was a pointer to the fact that the APC was miles ahead of the PDP in this year’s general elections, adding that the yearnings and aspirations of Nigerians for “change” for good governance and socio-economic advancement as contained in the APC manifesto can never be watered down by the on-going political propaganda against the APC and its candidates across the country by Fani-Kayode’s misleading media machinery.