{"id":68167,"date":"2014-11-24T15:39:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T15:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=68167"},"modified":"2014-11-24T15:39:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T15:39:14","slug":"nigeria-apc-party-anger-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/11\/nigeria-apc-party-anger-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria APC party anger over raid"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nigeria’s main opposition party has condemned a weekend raid of its Lagos offices by state security agents.<\/p>\n
“We call for an independent commission of inquiry to ascertain the reasons why armed officers raided our office,” the All Progressive Congress (APC) deputy chairman Lawal Shuaibu told the BBC.<\/p>\n
The party said computers were destroyed and documents seized during the raid.<\/p>\n
The State Security Service said it was investigating alleged cloning of voter cards, ahead of elections in February.<\/p>\n
“The petition alleged that those behind the activities were cloning Inec [Independent Electoral Commission] permanent voters cards, with the intention of hacking into [the] Inec database, corrupting it and replacing them with their own data,” the SSS said.<\/p>\n
“Based on this information, the Service placed the building under surveillance and having been convinced that some unwholesome activities were going on in the building, it undertook a raid of the premises.”<\/p>\n
It said its agents had taken away a server, three hard drives and 31 bags of documents on Saturday.<\/p>\n
‘Watergate’<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n But the APC said the incident was “another one in the string of attacks and illegal actions of the administration”.<\/p>\n