How Atiku 'Manufactured' 2019 Presidential Election Server Results - INEC Opens Up At Last

By Our Reporter

Apparently in response to claim by the Peoples Democratic Party, Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has accused Atiku Abubakar, of manufacturing results of the last presidential election to prove his case at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.

The INEC in response to claim by the PDP and its candidate on Thursday at the tribunal in Abuja distanced itself from an electronic sheet that purportedly contained the genuine results of the presidential election.

The umpire said it, “does not share information with such an unclassified entity and any information purportedly derived therefrom which does not accord with the result as declared by INEC is not authentic but rather was invented for the purpose” of the tribunal, report according to Premium Times said.

The report said INEC in the 291-page response, said it did not transmit results via electronic channels, but used manual collation as stipulated by law. 

“INEC specifically denies the existence of electronic transmission of results and it is unknown to the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended),” it said.

Mr. Buhari was declared the winner of the polls with about 3.9 million votes. He will be sworn in for a second term on May 29.

Recall Atiku's legal team submitted the sheet at the tribunal last month, contending it was obtained from an internal compilation of results on INEC’s Internet server.

The team, amongst other submissions, said Mr Abubakar won by more than six million votes, but his victory was allegedly suppressed by the commission in favour of incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari.

Mr Abubakar was derided by supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress after the claim became public. Mr Buhari’s campaign also wrote to the police and the State Security Service to launch a criminal investigation against Mr Abubakar. It accused him of maliciously accessing INEC’s files.