2019 election results to be collated, transmitted electronically, says INEC in 2017
About four months after President Muhammadu Buhari was declared the winner of the 2019 presidential election, controversy continues to trail the election process. Mr Buhari was declared the winner of the February 23, 2019, general election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) having scored highest votes of 15,191,847 to defeat his closest rival, former vice president Atiku Abubakar, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 11,262,978 votes. Mr Abubakar and his party rejected the results saying they were manipulated. They argued that the results being announced do not tally with what the party collated across the country. The
INEC Servers Exist, ICIR Provides Proof In Fresh Report
A report written by International Center For Investigative Reporting (ICIR) has released some fresh revelations about the controversy whether the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) made use of Servers in the 2019 general election or not. The report also confirmed the unconfirmed document earlier obtained by Starnews which indicated that the electoral body has budgetary provisions for Servers, e-collation and e-tracking of election results in 2019 INEC election budget by INEC. The ICIR report reads: “WHETHER or not the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, made use of a central server in storing poll results for the 2019 general election has
INEC Currently Replacing All Its Servers To Conceal Rigging, Says PDP
He said the action further exposed the culpability of INEC in the manipulation of the 2019 presidential election. He said, “The PDP has been well briefed on how the INEC leadership and officials of the Buhari Presidency became jittery and resorted to the desperate measure, after they realised that the servers have information of Atiku Abubakar’s victory at the election. “Our party also has details of how the INEC leadership and the Presidency agents procured and detailed computer experts to the commission’s offices to switch the servers, mutilate vital information in the system and attempt to erase all trails of
