National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has denied links with a company called Act Technologies Limited, said to have produced card readers for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
In a statement issued by his media aide, Tunde Rahman, on Friday, Tinubu said he had never been involved in the production of electoral materials of any kind.
He described the publication by an Online Portal linking him to the company as an unfortunate and crude attempt to malign his name
The statement read in part, “Asiwaju has absolutely no relation to, or interest in, Act Technologies Limited. He had never even heard of the company until the PDP (and its cronies in the media) started this campaign of calumny a few days ago.
“Moreover, Asiwaju has never been involved in the supply of card readers, voter registration and accreditation frameworks or any other materials or services to INEC. Never.
“Let us be clear in this matter; if any political party was in control of INEC’s procurement practices in 2014/2015, it would have been the one in control of the Federal Government at that time.
“Asiwaju never asked for, nor did he receive, anything or any contract from Jonathan’s government.
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“As incompetent as his administration was, even President Jonathan would not have sat idly by while important electoral contracts were being handed over to his most implacable political foe.
“As often happens with fiction concocted by amateurs, the application of a little common sense causes the entire story to fall apart.”
He blamed the opposition Peoples Democratic Party for the report linking him with Act Technologies Limited.
“This story is simply another effort by those opposed to President Buhari and the APC to justify their plans to distort the elections by alleging that the APC government is illegitimate and was rigged into office.
“The only problem being that the facts do not support their claims nor their rationale for cheating.
“These people are incurable. They do not rig because they were once victimised by rigging; they rig because rigging is not only in their blood, it is their blood.
“Such arrant nonsense has no place in our national discourse.
“The publication and its editors should be ashamed.”
