The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have rejected the claim by the elder statesman and politician, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, that the 2015 general election was massively rigged in the north. He said while the card readers were religiously used in the southern part of the country, they were not so deployed in the north. But in a reaction yesterday, the National Publicity Secretary of the ruling APC, Mr. Bolaji Abdullahi, dismissed Yakassai’s claim. He hinged his argument on the conclusion reached by international observers and other monitoring agencies that the 2015 election was considered the freest, fairest and most credible election so far conducted in the country. Human beings can rig elections, not card readers.

Source: The Guardian April 17, 2018 04:30 UTC