By our correspondent
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP has accused the All Progressives Congress, APC of harvesting 10 million bank accounts in 20 states it controls to transfer money into on Election Day.
Briefing newsmen in Abuja yesterday, the spokesperson of the opposition parties, Barrister Ikenga Ugochinyere the plans is to use the bank accounts to buy votes in 2023 under the code name “operation wire wire.”
He said harvested names, account numbers, and Voters Identification Numbers, Bank Verification Numbers of citizens are 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.
Speaking further, Ugochinyere claimed that information available to opposition political parties hows that the plot was designed soon after the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele announced a new policy to redesign the nation’s currency, the Naira.
“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 21 other states of the federation.
While calling on banks and Security Agencies to work together by identifying the illegal transactions in the banks and to report the same to the security agencies for immediate prosecution, he went further to release damning evidence of the plot in several leaked document that shows the harvested names and bank accounts for the alleged digital vote buying in those states during the 2023 general elections.
He also called on Nigerians to be vigilant on Election Day, vote and remain behind until their votes are counted and results transmitted to the relevant portals of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The spokesperson also urged all eligible voters to ensure that they collected their Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs to enable them exercise their franchise on Election Day.