Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party , Alhaji Atiku Abubakar  has revealed alleged plans by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to slow down the functioning of card readers in regions considered to be his strongholds.

He made this disclosure on Tuesday at an emergency National Executive Committee  meeting of the PDP at its national headquarters at Wadata Plaza, Abuja. He said some people were trained in China and are equipped with gadgets that look like mobile phones.

He said the plan was to slow the card readers in North-Central, South-South and South-East which are considered his strongholds, but to increase the rate of operation of the card readers in the North-West and North-East which are considered APC’s strongholds.

“We have just discovered that the APC have hired many of their operatives and have taken them to China to be trained, and they have been so trained, and they are back, and they are equipped with devices that are meant to slow or fasten our card readers.

“So, if you are in the South-South, South-East and North-Central, you are likely to get your card readers to be slowed by those APC operatives.”

“If you are from the North-West or North-East, the tendency is that they will use these machines to fast-track the readings of your card readers so that many of their supporters can vote while disenfranchising the other three zones.”

“I thought you should know that we have supplied the information to the campaign council, and you will even see the copy of the machine which each and every one of those operatives is to hold. It is like a telephone but that is its job. I felt I should let you know, and you should be guided accordingly.” he said.