Former Vice President Atiku
Abubakar and his Peoples Democratic Party had eggs on their faces Friday as the
theory of an INEC server, the pillar of their cases against President Muhammadu
Buhari collapsed like a house built with sand.
There was no INEC server. There
was no result published on INEC server. Atiku had been scammed big time and it
will go into the records as the scam of the century.
That was the loud and clear
message at the Presidential Election Tribunal as Atiku closed his case and the
court adjourned till 29 July for the defence to open its case.
There is certainly no need for
the defence to open any case. There is nothing to defend as Atiku and the PDP
had failed convincingly to prove the existence of any other result apart from
the one declared by INEC on 27 February, with Buhari beating Atiku by about
four million votes. Buhari got 15.1 million votes, Atiku got 11.2million votes.
According to Atiku, the INEC
server gave him victory over Buhari, winning 18,356,732 votes to defeat Buhari
who he claimed scored 16,741,430 votes.
With the anti-climax of Friday,
Atiku’s case, all the past weeks had become a riveting theatre of the absurd
and entertainment. He and his team of legal luminaries and witnesses had wasted
everyone’s time, pushing a specious thesis that does not exist. A server, now
where is the server?
On the last day of providing
irrefutable proof that he won the presidential election and beat President
Muhammadu Buhari, Atiku’s two ‘star witnesses’ were a study in high comedy.
Both the uncertified ‘expert’
from Kenya, David Ayu Nyango Njoga and former aviation minister Osita Chidoka
miserably failed to establish the existence of the server allegedly used by the
Independent National Electoral Commission for the transmission of election
results during the last general elections.
Incredibly the two star
witnesses, who claimed they had information that INEC used a server, got their
information from anonymous sources, possibly in a beer parlour or the dark web
of whistleblowing.
Both witnesses stammered when
challenged to authenticate their claims.
Chidoka ought to have known
better. He was a witness to the manual collation of the presidential election
result at the International Conference Centre in Abuja after the election on 23
February. How did he come about the INEC server theory?
He confirmed to the Presidential
Election Tribunal that the results were collated nationwide manually, and still
added idiotically that he learnt the result of the election was “transmitted by
INEC electronically to the INEC server.”
He collapsed under cross-examination
by lawyer to INEC, Yunus Usman (SAN). When asked if he witnessed the
transmission, Chidoka said he was not present when the alleged electronic
transmission was done.
On whether he has ever seen the
said server or knows its location, the witness said: “I have not seen the
server, but before the election and during collation, the INEC Chairman talked
about the existence of server.”
When asked to provide the server
address, Chidoka said the one he referred to was the same address provided by
the anonymous whistleblower.
Chidoka said he witnessed the
manual collation of election results at the national level and was told by his
party’s agents that collation was also manual at the state, ward and polling
unit levels.
Under cross-examination by lawyer
to President Muhammadu Buhari, Dr. Alex Izinyon (SAN), Chidoka admitted that he
did not witness all he claimed happened during the election.
Njoga, who claimed to be an
Information Technology (ICT) expert from Kenya, said he was engaged by the
petitioners to analyse results of the election as obtained from INEC server and
stored in a website:“https://www.factsdontlieng.com/.”
When asked whether INEC owns the
website, the witness said no, but that the data it contains are from INEC
server.
Njoga, claimed that the website:
“https://www.factsdontlieng.com/” is owned by an INEC official, who provided
the election result figures. When asked to name the said INEC official, the
witness said: “My lord, the INEC official is anonymous and I do not know him.”
Under cross-examination by the
leader of Buhari’s legal team, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), Njoka said the
website was created on March 12, 2019. When reminded that the presidential
election held on February 23 and the results released before March 12, the
witness went blank.
The resounding collapse of
Atiku’s INEC server may have knocked the bottom out of his case at the
tribunal.
His other redeeming planks remain
whether he has proven substantially election irregularities in the states.
It remains to be seen from 29
July, whether this is also not another illusion.
Culled: PMNews
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