The All Progressives Congress, APC, on Sunday described the DSS allegation that the party was planning to hack into the Independent National Electoral Commissions database in order to clone permanent voters cards for its members as worthless and spurious.
New Mail had reported that the Department of State Services, DSS, on Jan. 7th 2015 released the so-called findings from its investigation following the Gestapo-like raids of our Data Centre here at Number 10, Ajibola Street, Ikeja, on Nov. 22nd 2014.
The National Publicity Secretary of APC, Lai Mohammed said that the DSS was partisan and was merely carrying out and executive order aimed at postponing the general elections scheduled for February 14 and 28, 2015.
Mohammed said, “the thinking at the DSS, which is working in cahoots with the PDP, is that its report that the APC plans to hack into the voters’ registration Data Base of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will raise doubts about the integrity of the voter’s register to be used for the forthcoming polls, and subsequently force a postponement of the elections since the existing register cannot be used for the polls.”
Mohammed further accused DSS of lack of professionalism and expertise. He said there was no way anyone could have hacked into INEC’s database since it was not online.
He clarified that the data centre that was raided was manned by unemployed youths who had only basic knowledge of computer operations and were incapable of being hackers more so since the centre had no internet connection.
“allegation that the APC planned to hack into INEC’s voters’ registration Data Base is false. The fact that the DSS made the allegation at all shows that the agency does not understand the concept of hacking, which is pathetic for a primary intelligence agency of its stature.
“We are not aware that INEC has made a complaint of anyone or group trying to hack into its system. The DSS ‘findings’ are baseless as INEC’S database is a reflection of the registered members with the Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVCs). Please note that at the time of the DSS’ raids, the PVCs had already been printed. Therefore, of what value would it be to hack into the system and input more names?
“Simply put, it is not possible for the APC to hack into the INEC Data Base for the following reasons: INEC’s database is not online, how then is it possible for anyone to hack into it? To prevent virus intrusion, there is no Internet service at the APC Data Centre that was raided. Therefore it is not possible to hack into INEC’s database.”
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