It has been reported that about 13 Presiding Officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Borno and Yobe States, have told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Abuja, that they transmitted the results of the February 23, Presidential election in their various units and wards, to the official server of INEC.
The Presiding Officers in their respective Witness Statements of Oath, in support of the petition filed by the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, challenging the election of President Muhammadu Buhari, of
the All Progressives Congress, APC, stated that the electoral body had during their training, instructed them on how to transmit the results to its server.
The submission of the Presiding Officers were to lay credence to the petition of Atiku and the PDP, wherein they alleged that INEC pulled down the official results from its server, and consequently replaced it with a doctored one to favour Buhari.
The position of the Presiding Officers, however, contradicted the submission of INEC, who had earlier stated in its reply to the petition, that the results were never sent to its server.
All these were contained in Atiku’s reply to the objection filed by the APC, who is the 3rd Respondent to his (Atiku) petition before the Presidential Tribunal, wherein he is challenging the election that produced Buhari as winner.
Recall, that INEC had declared Buhari as the winner of the February 23, election, having polled 15,191,847 votes, to defeat his closest challenger, Atiku, who polled 11,262,978 votes.
However, Atiku in his 139-page petition before the Tribunal, stated that from the data in INEC’s server, the true, actual, and correct results, showed that he (Atiku) secured a total of 18,356,732 votes, against Buhari’s 16,741,430 votes.
On its part, INEC stated that there was no result in its server, and that the Presidential election results were not transmitted electronically.
Recall that it was reported that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2019 polls, Atiku Abubakar, has challenged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to disprove his “factual” submission that the February 23 presidential election was fraught with irregularities.
Atiku, in a statement by his media aide, Paul Ibe, said the fact that the APC chose to base its defence at the Election Petition Tribunal on the claim that Atiku is not a Nigerian is an admission that they trampled on the will of the people during the presidential poll, adding that the tribunal would treat the citizenship claim with the contempt “it deserves”.
Source: Post Nigeria
Please leave your comments below.
Comments
Post a Comment