The battle between the Department of State Services (DSS) and the All Progressive Congress (APC) seems to have taken a new twist following the claim by the DSS that it has evidence to confirm the truth about the orchestrated plan by the APC to hack into the database of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Addressing the media at its headquarters in Abuja, the Service’s Deputy Director, Public Relations, Marilyn Ogar, said the service could confirm that APC registered foreigners, security personnel and under-age as its members in an attempt to inflate its membership data 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.
According to her: “It was also discovered that the APC registered under-age persons including several infants and babies as members of the party.
“We know that Article 9.1 of the APC Constitution expressly says: “Membership of the party shall be open to any citizen of Nigeria, who has attained eighteen (18) years and accepts the aims and objectives of the party…”
“Similarly, the APC registered several security personnel from the Nigerian 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 has books containing names of people with their phone numbers.
“Equally discovered, were several envelopes containing passport photographs of various individuals. From the foregoing, we suspect that there was an elaborate and well-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,” she noted.
Speaking further, the DSS spokesperson maintained that in the course of investigation, the Service recovered a temporary voters card; a Permanent Voters Card, insisting that one of the hard drives recovered from the building contained a video of 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, 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.
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