Atiku releases ‘evidence’ showing election result he submitted is from INEC server

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has reiterated his claim before the presidential election tribunal that the result he submitted was from the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

It will be recalled that INEC, while responding to Atiku’s petition at the tribunal said the results being paraded by Abubakar is fabricated and not from its website.

However, responding to INEC’s claim, the former vice president provided the address of the server from which the results were obtained and claimed it is unique to INEC.

According to documents obtained by TheCable, Atiku claimed, “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.”

“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.”

The PDP candidate further claimed that, 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.”

With additional reporting from TheCable