Date: 2014-08-21

Two women in possession of 56 Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, were caught in Ilorin, Kwara State, and are now being held by the Directorate of State Security, DSS.

The women, said to have been caught by vigilant members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at Omoda area, attempting to scan the PVCs at a business centre, told National Mirror at the PDP secretariat before they were whisked away by DSS men that they are members of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, sent on an by chieftains of the party.

They said they came with the cards to Ilorin from two wards in Asa Local Government Area of the state to accomplish the mission.

PDP state chairman, Iyiola Oyedepo, told newsmen that the women were seen with the cards when they wanted to do photocopies at a business centre around Omoda roundabout in Ilorin.

He said that a member of the PDP who saw the women quickly alerted the leadership of the party, who arrested and handed them over to the DSS after they could not give convincing explanations about how they came about the cards.

Alleging that the possession of the cards by the women was part of plots to manipulate next year’s general election in the state, Oyedepo said the people would have been lynched but for the quick intervention of the PDP leadership.

Speaking with the National Mirror on the matter, APC Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Suleiman Buhari, said the two women; Misilimat Kadiri and her partner, who refused to disclose her name were ‘association leaders’ in the party who were carrying out the party’s instructions.

His words: “There is nothing wrong with their action. PDP is only making an issue out of the matter. They are leaders of their associations from Asa. We gave them the instruction to collect PVC cards of their members and photocopy. That is all.”