Atiku Abubakar, presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has insisted the result from
the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) shows he
defeated President Muhammadu Buhari in the presidential election.
In his submission to the
presidential election tribunal, the former vice president gave the “unique MAC
address and Microsoft product ID of the INEC server” from where the results
were obtained.
According to the result declared
by INEC from the 36 states and the federal capital territory (FCT), Buhari
polled 15,191,847, while Atiku came second with 11,262,978 votes.
But in his petition submitted at
the tribunal, the PDP candidate claimed he garnered a total of 18,356,732 votes
to defeat Buhari, who, according to him, polled 16,741,430 votes.
INEC, in response, said the
results being paraded by Atiku was fabricated and not from its website.
But in their response to the
INEC’s submission, Atiku and the PDP
said address of the server from which the results were obtained is unique to
INEC.
“The Servers from which the said
figures were derived belong to the first Respondent (INEC). The figures and
votes were transmitted to the first Respondent’s Presidential Result’s Server 1
and thereafter aggregated in INEC_PRES_RSLT_SRV2019, whose Physical Address or
unique Mac Address is 94-57-A5-DC-64-B9 with Microsoft Product ID
00252-7000000000-AA535. The above descriptions are unique to the 15t
Respondent’s Server,” they said.
“There is no conjecture in the
votes and scores in the table pleaded by the Petitioners. The figures are
factual. The Spokesperson for the 2nd Respondent’s Campaign Organization openly
admitted that the data in question was in the first Respondent’s Server when he
wrote and submitted a petition to the Inspector General of Police and the
Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS) asking the Security
agencies to investigate the 2nd Petitioner herein for allegedly hacking into
the Server of the 1St Respondent and obtaining the data in question.
“Specifically, Mr. Festus Keyamo,
SAN, the Spokesperson of the 2nd Respondent claimed in the said petition that
it was the first Petitioner who smuggled the data into the Server.”
Atiku and the PDP also alleged
the INEC chairman “committed grave errors in the final collation exercise” for
the election by “falsely crediting” some persons with political parties,
including “Okotie Christopher, Reverend Dr. Onwubuya and Ojinika Jeff Chinze.”
“The grave errors referred to in
paragraphs 4 and 5 above were under the hands and signature of the first
Respondent’s Chairman, (who was also the Returning Officer) in the conduct of
the final collation of the results of the Presidential Election,” they added.
“The Petitioners state that the
final results as declared by the first respondent are those that were
transmitted online to the website of the first Respondent (www
inecnigeria.org).”
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