Faulty intelligence stifling fight against Boko Haram - APC

The All Progressives Congress has said faulty intelligence which has so far stifled the fight against Boko Haram, was the same which led to the raid of the party's data centre in Lagos.  APC also challenged the Department of State Services to tell the Nigerian public what it found after invading the party's data centre in Lagos.
This was contained in a statement signed by its national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Abuja, on Monday.
According to the party, Nigerians deserve to know the outcome of the investigations into "the cooked-up allegation" of PVC cloning that forced the DSS to unlawfully invade the party's offices in Lagos over a week ago.

The party said, "It is this type of faulty intelligence that has been stifling the efforts to deconstruct Boko Haram and facilitate the battle to end the insurgency that is daily killing and maiming innocent Nigerians."
It also said the DSS should apologize to Nigerians for acting on the basis of faulty intelligence.
The party cautioned that any further delay in telling Nigerians the outcome of the investigations after almost 10 days could mean that the DSS is trying to manufacture evidence to support its faulty intelligence.
APC said, "Without carrying out any investigation and with no shred of evidence, the DSS gleefully announced to the world that they stormed our data centre because they got information that Permanent Voter Cards were being cloned there.
"On the basis of this uncorroborated announcement, the PDP categorically accused the APC of cloning PVCs. It is now over a week since the DSS carted away materials and computer servers after ransacking our offices for over two hours. The agency's experts must have analyzed the information in the materials and on the servers."
The party demanded that the security agency should immediately announce its findings to the world.
"After all, it took them only a few hours after their Gestapo-like invasion of our offices before they issued their baseless allegation of PVC cloning to justify their action," APC said.
The party equally announced that while it has gone to court to seek redress, the DSS still owes Nigerians an explanation and, if indeed no evidence of card cloning was found, an unreserved apology to them.
It charged the DSS to always be professional and fair in carrying out its duties instead of relying on beer parlour gossips as useful intelligence.