JUST IN: Atiku releases ‘evidence’ of election result from INEC website

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 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 Abubakar is
fabricated and not from its website.

But in their response to the INEC’s submission, a copy of which
was obtained, Abubakar and the PDP said 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.

“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).”