The All Progressives Congress, APC, has dismissed as hogwash the so-called findings of the State Security Service, SSS, following its Gestapo-like raid on the party’s offices in Lagos, saying the ‘findings’ presented to the media by the agency on Wednesday is a great disservice to Nigeria and an embarrassment to all intelligence-gathering organizations around the world.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party also described the timing of the release of the “findings” as a plot orchestrated in collusion with the PDP to distract the APC from its ongoing campaigns for next month’s elections.

It described as disingenuous, flimsy, premeditated, partisan and an irritant the conclusion that the APC had an ”articulated plan to inflate the party’s membership data as well as hack into INEC’s voter registration database through the creation of party membership forms and cards to match INEC’s voters register across the country”.

”First the DSS and the PDP said the APC was cloning Permanent Voters Cards at the raided office, without a shred of evidence. Now, after a ‘painstaking’ investigation, the DSS has found out that the APC was only planning to inflate its membership data and then hack into INEC’s database. And this is the outcome of its massive, months-long investigations?

”This would have been funny if it were not from a primary domestic intelligence agency saddled with a great responsibility. Can this wishy-washy report stand any serious scrutiny? Can any serious intelligence gathering agency anywhere else in the world take this report seriously? With these kind of findings, one can now understand why Boko Haram has continued to strike at times and places of its own choosing without any prior knowledge by our all-powerful DSS.

”Even the presentation of the report by a poorly-trained and highly-politicized spokesperson of the DSS worsened the so-called findings. Why would the spokesperson of a national agency sound like a megaphone for the ruling party, freely castigating the opposition spokesman and ”a number of uninformed members of the public”? Why does she have to go personal in presenting a report that supposedly is in the national interest?

”We have always warned that our democracy is in clear and present danger, not just from desperate politicians, but also from institutions of state that have compromised in their roles and resorted to crass lawlessness. The DSS’ ‘findings’ today have given us another reason to repeat this warning.

”While we are willing to meet the DSS in court, we can confidently say that the ‘confessions’ extracted from the arrested persons, after they were subjected to incredible acts of torture, cannot even stand in any court of law,” APC said.
The party recalled that in its statement of Dec. 5th 2014, it accused the SSS of resorting to the use of torture to obtain forced confessions from those who were arrested during the first raid on the party’s Data Centre in Ikeja.

”In that statement, we called the action of the DSS a contravention of the UN Convention against Torture to which Nigeria is a signatory and a violation of the citizens’ fundamental human rights.

”We also said the DSS shackled the hands and legs of those arrested and blindfolded them while they were being taken to Abuja. The arrested persons remained in chains even at the dark detention cell where they were made to sleep on the bare floor for the 10 days they were detained illegally.

”Guns were pointed at their heads by DSS personnel who threatened to shoot them, while a pregnant woman among those who were arrested was denied access to her drugs even when she started bleeding due to the torture to which she was subjected by the DSS. Now the DSS has confirmed what we said in that press statement. Is anyone still surprised at the action of countries that are distancing themselves from Nigeria over human rights violations?” it queried.

APC said the impending release of the ‘great findings’ by the DSS after its world class investigations must have been the reason why the agency recently threatened it would arrest any politician who makes inciting comments, adding: ”Apparently the DSS needed to silence all so that no one will dare criticize its earth-shaking ‘findings’.”

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/174440-apc-dismisses-sss-allegations-hogwash.html

Lobatan! APC all the way, they dont lack replies, likewise you no fit catch them for corner.
#BuhariOsibanjo2015

God Bless Alhaji Lai.

Where does Tinubu always find competent, reasonable and eloquent people?

”First the DSS and the PDP said the APC was cloning Permanent Voters Cards at the raided office, without a shred of evidence. Now, after a ‘painstaking’ investigation, the DSS has found out that the APC was only planning to inflate its membership data and then hack into INEC’s database. And this is the outcome of its massive, months-long investigations?
”This would have been funny if it were not from a primary domestic intelligence agency saddled with a great responsibility. Can this wishy-washy report stand any serious scrutiny? Can any serious intelligence gathering agency anywhere else in the world take this report seriously?


This summarizes it all, all public officials in the Administration of jonaTAN are ineffective, useless, incompetent and tactless in the discharge of their duties. How can a CIA, MOSSAD or MI6 like organization make this kind of police academy trainee detective press statement and still be chestbeating to have performed

Nothing left unsaid or untouched in this statement

Gehn Gehn...Sai!

GMB and Prof Osinbajo the change Nigeria's are yearning for there is no stopping them no matter the propangada.

As e dey hot....spit it out like fire..I trust you Sir Lai!

As a technology person and systems analyst, I am ashamed that the intelligence unit of my country does not know the diffrence between HACKING and CRACKING.
in the first instance no one needs to set up a data center to corrupt any organisation's warehouse-while an hacker can attack and corrupt a datawarehoise, you can not inject your own data as all databses automatically prevents this.
Honestly I found the DSS statements so laughable and idiotic. Only a complete technological slowpoke could make such statement.

Really these are the kind of people that can work under GEJ.. Like GEJ like his DSS.

SMH.

Marilyn is a disgrace to all hard working intelligent women, like the rest of the GEJ team of failure, marilyn ranks high in GEJ most dumbest sycophants! If this is GEJ strategy to accuse others of rigging which seems to be his intention, then truly he seems to be deaf to the wind of change blowing saying Nigerians reject gej.

#Nigeriansrecjectgej

Hahaha. Government Magic don start again oh! Madam DSS, any intelligent report about the Chibok Girls and Boko Haram? After all you arrested some Boko Haram Members. No confessions yet? Please stop deceiving us, we are tired of this game called Government Magic according to Baba 70. APC don't need such to win the election at all because they have the support of the masses already for CHANGE


Where is the report of the ikeja office ransacking of APC cloning card

It's a pity the dss has chosen to embarrass itself in this manner, its really shameful. First they claimed Apc was cloning PVCs, later they changed story to hacking inec, today they are displaying Apc's form in a press conference for that matter. What a shame.

Embarrassed. Really embarrassed. I cant believe im sharing a country with a coconut head like that woman...whats her name again? Where is the cloned pvc cards? Hope the detained employees sue for zillions and win it.

DSS

Working for the cabals not the Masses
Why publicise their findings after so many weeks

And America CIA will just be laughing with way the Ogar has politicised intelligence agencies.
I stand to be corrected on whether this woman is a trained intelligent officer.
Why is she tackling APC or why can't INEC speak on their position on the issue of hacking their website or when have we stated electronic voting system?
Rubbish lie by ogar.
Meanwhile it's General Buhari and Pastor Prof. Osinbajo

Isis brotherhood party a.k.a apc.

Yea ryt

Na today

Tell us another story.

This present DSS is a disgrace to our Nation as a whole.

In my entire life as a Nigerian, i have never seen the DSS as rediculed and disgraced as this.

I need to get my PVC by all means possible to vote for change!

Another 4yrs of Jonathan will be indeed terrible for this country.

We need CHANGE!!!

Tonylyte:
Isis brotherhood party a.k.a apc.

do you think at all? clueless like your paymasters.....

I don't understand the DSS anymore. They are becoming a tool against the opposition now.

This is what this prestigious organisation has been turned into under Jonathan. Obasanjo was no saint neither was Yar'Adua, but they never tried to politicise sensitive institutions like the Army, Police or DSS. Jonathan on the other hand had basterdised these institutions and turned them into a recluse of what they used to be!

Now they have sank so deep in the mess the only thing they can do now is continue sinking. They know what awaits them should Buhari take over with all the atrocities they've committed, hence their desperation to rubbish the opposition and by extension GMB.

But Nigerians aren't buying any of it. With every single "discovery" they make and the press statements they release, they reveal nothing else but an organisation run by men with no regard whatsoever for virtue and honour.

Ogah will definitely get the 'dingiest' cell room in kirikiri when that time comes.

Ok. We be watching if this ever makes FP

“In the course of investigation, the following discoveries
were made: a temporary voter card, a permanent voter card;
“That one of the hard drives recovered from the building
contained a video of twenty-one (21) hacking tutorials. The
tutorial video focused on the following areas:
“How to become a hacker and steps to take to avoid
detection in the process of hacking web servers;
“Steps and procedures of system hacking, passwords
cracking, decrypting, escalating access privileges, and
creating backdoors to servers.
“It also explicitly explained how to evade security of
databases such as Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS),
firewalls, and other measures put in place to deter hackers;
“The video outlined ways to identify vulnerabilities in
systems and how to surreptitiously drop a USB flash drive
in a target establishment, which when plugged into any
computer, transmits malicious codes enough to gain access
into and compromise the entire system of the target
organisation; and
“Finally, the video explains how to hack into the systems of
media houses, with the aim of broadcasting fake stories or
headlines.
[b]“It was also discovered that the APC registered under-aged
persons including several infants and babies as members of
the party. We know that Article 9.1 of the APC party
constitution expressly says: ‘membership of the party shall
be open to any citizen of Nigeria who has attained the age
of eighteen (18) years and accepts the aims and objectives
of the Party.”
“Similarly, the APC registered several security personnel
from the Nigeria Army (NA), the Nigeria Police Force (NPF),
Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Nigerian Security and Civil
Defence Corps (NSCDC), Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC)
among others, in their uniforms as members of the party.
“Furthermore the APC had multiple registrations of
individuals in multiples of 16, 12, and 10;
“Several foreigners were also registered as its members;
“Also, the APC filled forms without passport photographs,
and have books containing names of people with their
phone numbers.
“Equally discovered were several envelopes containing
passport photographs of various individuals.”
The service said from its investigations it suspected that
there was an elaborate and well articulated plan by the APC
to inflate the party’s membership data as well as hack into
INEC’s voter registration database through the creation of
party membership forms and cards to match INEC’s voter
register across the country[/b].

Reading this, esp the emboldened, I am immediately reminded of the shenanigans that went on last year as APC was doing its 'MASSIVE' membership registration nationwide, where they told us that they registered in the millions and hundreds of thousands in just a few days as APC members. Do you guys remember how this same APC said they will register 24 MILLION persons as members in that short time ie almost half of the entire 52 million registered Nigerian voters? As members o!!! They did not even bother to ponder about the 'gangantunness' of their LIES and how impossible it was for any sane mind to believe it. They later said they even surpassed their target!!

I remember the PDP raising the alarm about this time that APC was planning to incredibly inflate their 'membership' figure so that they could easily rig with those inflated numbers, and if the rigging didn't work, cry to the already compromised media that the Nos they got in the elections was less their 'registered members'. Violence, Demonstrations and 'Parallel Govts' (recall the noise this one had been getting from same APC lately) would then be the result.
( http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/pdp-accuses-apc-of-phantom-registration-of-28m-members/170904/ )

THE EKITI EXAMPLE

A very succinct example of this scam perpetuated by APC is Ekiti State, where they claimed that they registered 226.000 APC MEMBERS (notice o: MEMBERS)- again almost half of the entire No of registered voters in the State!!!
( http://leadership.ng/news/346608/apc-registration-ekiti-registers-226000-party-members ). This was in Feb, 2014.
Fast forward June of that same year, when the Governorship election took place in that State. APC had already gone to the media, turning 'every' people and claiming they 'own' Ekiti, conducting phantom polls were they claimed 76% of the people supported their candidate. UNA REMEMBER??
Then election proper cam, and they were given the greatest electoral defeat in modern Nigerian history where an incumbent was. mildly put, disgraced out of office- losing EVERY LGA in the process. That was also arguably the cleanest and most organised election in Nigeria in a long time. They only got about 120,000 voters at the end of the day (about HALF of their own 'registered members' they apparently had just 4 months before)!!!
( http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/06/breaking-news-ayo-fayose-wins-ekiti-elections/ )

APC could not rig in that election nor could they now use the option of Demostrations and violence COS THE FG DISCOVERED THEIR PLANS AND FLOORED THE STATE WITH MILITARY AND OTHER SECIRITY MEN. Una remember how APC and their Media partners take cry over the 'militarization' of Ekiti state?? That was the Joker that the 'clueless' one used to thwart APC grand plans in that election. That was why e dey pain till today.

..... While we were sleeping, APC in their true criminal nature- in their desperancy- were planning. They were registering babies, children (in clear violation of the Electoral Act which says members of a political party shall be more than 18 years old), foreigners, military men, ghosts (otutu), etc, in a desperate attempt to inflate their members and then rig the elections Or cause mayhem if they lost. They could boldly do so cos the compromised media- their partners in crime- have been bought and would not beam their light on them.

BUT, na God na Him catch them so. And THEY WOULD BE THOROUGHLY PUNISHED- 1st, by the law and then by the Nigerian people. Buncha Criminal Morraffuckers!!!!!

it is a blithering hogwash!

That victim of rape called marylin Ogar is a prostitute.

Is anybody still taking Ogar seriously? I removed her from my list of serious people worth listening to way back in August 2014 when she accused boko haram of stealing catholic regalia from kano market. She is either the "dumbest" person in the intelligence field or she is just plain insulting our intelligence.
Imagine boko haram financed by billionaires and that is able to import sophisticated military weapons with which they have overpowers the nigerian army in many instances. Now this same boko haram will now prefer to go to kano market to steal catholic dresses instead of hiring an expert to sew it for them or at worst import it to the country.

This woman has come again with her comic show of lack of intelligence or how else do we describe someone who take video tutorial files on hard drive as smoking gun evidence for intent to hack. Someone please tell madam ogar that I do not intend to hack into inec database since I also have tons of such videos on my system.

For some reasons, I am not surprised afterall they say birds of the same feather fluck together - pej/gej/ogar perfect match