{"id":101477,"date":"2022-11-21T16:20:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T15:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=101477"},"modified":"2022-11-21T16:20:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T15:20:05","slug":"vote-buying-apc-harvesting-over-10m-voters-bank-accounts-for-digital-vote-buying-cupp-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/vote-buying-apc-harvesting-over-10m-voters-bank-accounts-for-digital-vote-buying-cupp-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote buying:\u00a0 APC harvesting over 10m voter&#8217;s bank accounts for digital vote buying, CUPP alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The coalition of opposition political parties, CUPP, has alleged it intercepted a plan by the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC to carry out digital vote buying following their inability to continue the usual cash vote as a result of the new naira design policy.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spokesperson of the CUPP, Imo Ugochinyere while addressing the media, Monday in Abuja also said the 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.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He 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 Central Bank of Nigeria announced the policy to redesign the Naira.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis 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\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">CUPP said that in the Imo and Ebonyi States, this 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 Empowerment Form.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In Katsina State and other parts of the North West, the plot was being executed under the Citizens Grassroots Farmers Association, 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.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In Cross River State, the details are harvested under the Forum of Tinubu Support Groups. 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