By Deborah Onyofufeke
The coalition of opposition political parties, CUPP, has disclosed an alleged plan by the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, to carry out a digital vote-buying plot code-named operation “wire wire”.
This was made known to newsmen on Monday in a press briefing by the CUPP spokesperson, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, where he said that the plot came about following APC’s inability to continue its alleged usual cash vote as a result of the new naira design policy.
He said “further intelligence we have, intercepted the ruling party’s desperation to emerge victorious by any means necessary includes digital vote buying which is code-named operation Wire-Wire
“This operation the APC designed immediately after the announcement on redesigning the Naira, this plot has now received approval at the highest level of the APC and its campaign councils”. Ugochinyere alleged.
The opposition further alleged that this new plot of digital vote buying, termed operation Wire-Wire by the CUPP, will see to the APC harvesting names, account numbers, and Voters Identification Numbers, Bank Verification Numbers of citizens, arranged in tables for each polling unit on the understanding that money will be sent to each person by electronic means to purchase their votes.
The opposition coalition also claimed that information available to it, shows that bank details of over ten million voters have been harvested by agents of the ruling party nationwide using different platforms to harvest the bank details and in a plot designed soon after the Naira redesign policy was announced.
Ugochinyere further said “This plot which has now received the approval at the highest level of the APC and its Presidential Campaign Council was also designed in Imo State and exported to twenty-one other states of the federation, requires the party’s agents harvesting names, account numbers and Voters Identification Numbers, Bank Verification Numbers of citizens and arranged in tables for each polling unit on the understanding that money will be sent to each person by electronic means to purchase their votes.”
CUPP also alleged that in Imo and Ebonyi States, the plot was being executed under the platform Support Group Coordination, South East while in other parts of the South East like in Abia, Enugu and Anambra it was being executed as All Progressives Congress no Empowerment Form.
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He added that In Katsina State and other parts of the North West, the plot was being executed under the Citizens Grassroots Farmers Association, while in Ekiti State, they are operating under the Ekiti Development Front (EDF).
In the North Central, Operation Wire-Wire was being executed under the North Central Women for Tinubu. In Cross River State, the details are harvested under the Forum of Tinubu Support Groups. In the rest of the country, the APC is harvesting details using the Vote Canvassing Form.
On this note, CUPP called on the Banks and the Security Agencies to work together by identifying the illegal transactions in the banks and reporting the same to the security agencies for immediate prosecution.
Mr Ugochinyere went further to release several allegedly leaked document that shows the harvested names and bank accounts for the digital vote buying in those states.
