‘INEC’s silence on PDP’s server claims worrisome’- Media organization

The Buhari Media organization (BMO) has expressed concern over
the long silence of the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) over claims by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) that it
had access to the commission’s backend servers, saying the silence
was worrisome and frightening. Chairman and secretary of the group,
Niyi Akinsiju and Cassidy Madueke, respectively said this in a
statement.

The pro Buhari group said “this is most frightening. That INEC
is not alarmed or bothered by such blatant claim by the PDP to have
procured the hacking of its systems – whether it is false or not-
is most worrisome. We would have expected INEC to swing into
clearing the air immediately and distancing itself from such a
criminal conduct. But INEC has kept a deafening silence. INEC’s
silence on this confession of criminality against it is not
golden.

“It is suspicious and carries a weight of taint that must be
called out. It can be likened to a scenario where a thief says he
has robbed a bank and the bank remains silent on the confession of
robbery against it, whether its safes and moneys are intact or not.
Silence is very weighty in any such instance”.

BMO said that it knew that the claim by the PDP that it was in
possession of results fraudulently fetched from the INEC servers
was “a hoax and only an exhibition of the innate fraudulent
character of the PDP. For instance, according to the group, the
so-called results did not tally with reality, with fundamental
errors such as the absence of votes of other political parties that
participated during the election. Still, we believe that INEC ought
not to be silent in the face of such wild allegations.

“The very character of the PDP is one of fraud, dishonesty and
malfeasance; it is not out of its character to have made moves to
procure the hacking into the INEC servers by some of the
Commission’s staff. Its Freudian slip of this admission of the
stupid attempt, however unsuccessful, must be dealt with and
addressed with all sense of seriousness. This, INEC has failed to
do.”