THE All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed as
hogwash the so-called findings of the DSS 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, Alhaji 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 DSS 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'.''

www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/national-news/193082-dss-findings-from-raid-of-party-offices-hogwash-says-apc

PDP how market

Give us a white lie!
Its GEJ vs No contestant!
GEJ 2015!

No problem, d DSS has taken those arrested to court. APC shld go and prove their innocency in court. Even though we know Tinubu has d 'resources' to buy judgments

Pdp funeral on FeBUHARI 14.