CNPP backs card reader, threatens to eject recalcitrant members

National publicity secretary of the conference Osita Okechukwu, who made the threat yesterday in a statement, also said the outcome of the INEC’s test-run of card readers reinforces their resolve to back its usage for the 2015 elections.Okechukwu said their stand on the use of Magnetic Card Reader for accreditation of voters in the 2015 […]

National publicity secretary of the conference Osita Okechukwu, who made the threat yesterday in a statement, also said the outcome of the INEC’s test-run of card readers reinforces their resolve to back its usage for the 2015 elections.
Okechukwu said their stand on the use of Magnetic Card Reader for accreditation of voters in the 2015 general elections was reinforced by the mock test of the readers by INEC even if the picture is the only identification matrix.
“INEC should take note of the few lapses noted and improve on the device, so as to engender free, fair and transparent election. This will put paid to those who would want to repeat in Medical School after failing. We are making this declaration because in the absence of genuine reason, we adopt a device which has been used to conduct free, fair and transparent elections in many countries like the US, UK, Brazil, Ghana, and the 2014 Indian general  elections, an election where 600 million Indian voters voted seamlessly.
While saying that the CNPP concurs with the valid evidence of the use of card readers for accreditation of voters,  he wondered why the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which has ruled the country in the last 16 years is jittery and opposing its usage.
He said: “To worsen matters, the PDP is desperately recruiting other political parties in this ignoble, undemocratic and unpatriotic onslaught on the nerve of our fledgling democracy. We take exception to our membership of political parties that are wittingly or unwittingly against the deployment of Magnetic Card Reader, hence threatening the survival of our fledgling democracy and by extension the corporate existence of our dear country.”