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The South-South zone of the All Progressives Congress has cautioned the Senate not to arm-twist the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to use the Temporary Voter Cards in the rescheduled general elections.

The National Vice-Chairman of APC (South-South), Mr. Hilliard Eta, said the summon of Jega by the upper chambers of the National Assembly to explain the use of the card reader machine was an attempt to arm twist the commission to resort to the old order of the TVC.

He also alleged that it was a plot by the Peoples Democratic Party-led Federal Government to impose the use of TVC for the rescheduled polls.

In a statement issued on Wednesday by his special adviser on media, Mr. Bassey Ita, the APC deputy national chairman described the move to introduce the use of TVC as an attempt to drag Nigeria back to the stone age where development was time-consuming and difficult because of the use of analogue devices.

He said the resolve of the PDP-led Senate to kick against the card reader using section 52 of the Electoral Act was another ploy to discredit the INEC and force it to go back to the use of the TVC, adding that should that be the case the ruling party would have dragged Nigeria centuries back.

The statement read in part, I was scandalized that the PDP-led senate would cite section 52 to justify their agitation against the use of the Permanent Voters Cards for an election they had initially conceded to participating in.

I was scandalized that even those who are masters of reason and logic could be bereft of logic and reason in defending Nigerias descend to analogue and backwardness.

This agrees with the saying that a man who is bereft of logic takes to violence. The latest antics is another violent approach to the elections that the PDP has decided to take after foisting the postponement agenda on the nation. The world is watching.

Meanwhile, Eta has condemned the violent explosion and disruption of the APC rally in Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State on Tuesday by agents suspected to have been masterminded by the PDP.

The PDP has been divinely marked as agents of destruction; out to destabilise the progress of Nigeria. They would fail in their bid to destroy a country that God has ordained with the potential for being the mother of all black entities in the world, he said.

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Dont arm-twist Jega to use TVC , APC tells Senate