And the drama continues. Still in the fight to reclaim his mandate, Nigeria’s Former Vice President and 2019 presidential candidate under the umbrella of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has left a big question mark and wrinkles on the foreheads of opposition party, All Progressive Congress, APC and the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. More details below.
According to Daily Post, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar might be close to
recovering his ‘stolen mandate’ as plans are underway to confirm his
claims of electoral victory. Atiku in his submission to the presidential
election tribunal gave the “unique MAC address and Microsoft product ID
of the INEC server” from where the results were obtained.
The result from the electoral commission, INEC show that Buhari
polled 15,191,847, while Atiku came second with 11,262,978 votes. But
Atiku told the tribunal that he polled a total of 18,356,732 votes to
Buhari’s 16,741,430 votes. Abubakar and the PDP insisted that the
address of the server from which the results were obtained are 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.
Atiku added that the spokesperson of the 2nd respondent, Mr Festsu
Keyamo, SAN, claimed that it was the Atiku who smuggled 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.”
He added that 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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