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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of engaging in unwholesome acts towards truncating the country’s democracy”.

PDP expressed shock over the alleged findings of the Department of State Service (DSS) at the office of APC, which was raided on Saturday, urging the security agencies to conduct a thorough investigation into the issue.

The DSS said it acted based on a tip-off that some individuals were cloning Permanent Voters Card (PVC) and utilising technologies to hack into the database of INEC.

Olisa Metuh, the national publicity secretary of PDP, described the APC as a desperate party that was planning to compromise the 2015 general election.

He added that there was a possibility that APC had cloning centres in all the states of the country in order to achieve its sinister aim.

“This discovery at the APC office in Lagos is a clear confirmation of our stand, and fears by well-meaning Nigerians of APC’s criminal desperation, lust for power, plot to cause confusion and truncate our democracy,” Metuh said in a statement on Monday.

“Since its formation, the APC has been accusing everyone, including INEC and security agencies of working to rig the 2015 elections in favour of the PDP. Little did Nigerians realise that such were smokescreens designed to divert attention from their heinous and unpatriotic plots.

“We believe that the APC, in its desperate attempt to grab power by all means, has already established cloning and hacking centres in all the 36 states of the federation to actualise their dubious machination to subvert the will of the people.

“We share the fear of a majority of Nigerians that the APC may have already started cloning ballot papers and other election documents.

“Our citizens must therefore remain vigilant and resist any attempt by the APC to steal their mandate.

“We also call on security agencies to fully investigate this atrocious cloning and ensure that whoever is found culpable faces the full weight of the law.”

In its own statement also released on Monday, APC had accused the DSS of conniving with ruling party to frustrate its membership drive ahead of the forthcoming election.