The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential
candidate, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, said President Muhammadu Buhari
should not celebrate yet over the ruling of the Presidential Election
Petition Tribunal on Independent National Election Commission’s (INEC)
central server.
He said contrary to the position of the Presidency, the tribunal did not reject his request to inspect INEC’s central server.
The former vice president spoke as 60 presidential candidates
described the controversy over INEC’s server as a plot to discredit the
2019 polls
Atiku, in a statement by his media aide, Paul Ibe, was reacting to a statement from the Presidency hailing the tribunal ruling.
He explained that what the tribunal said was that granting him access
to the server was not relevant at the moment, as his petition on the
declaration of President Buhari as winner of the presidential poll was
still at the preliminary stage.
The statement read in part: “Let us educate the spokespersons of
General Muhammadu Buhari on what yesterday’s (Monday) judgment actually
says. The request by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party to
inspect the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission was
not rejected.
“What the honourable tribunal said is that it is still at preliminary
stages and the main case has not begun and that the matter of granting
access to inspect the INEC server is not relevant to the preliminary
stages. It is a matter to be adjudicated upon when the case proper is
being heard.
“As such, the celebration by the administration of General Buhari
that their electoral heist has been covered is premature. Their
giddiness has even blinded them to the eyewitness testimony given to
mzultiple media in interviews by staff of the Independent National
Electoral Commission that there is indeed a server and that they
actually submitted results and accreditation through it.
“In their rush to claim a Pyrrhic victory, the General Buhari
administration missed out the fact that the 2019 budget has multiple
line items for procurement, maintenance and service of the server they
claim does not exist…
“In the light of this, we remind those who are gloating in their ignorance that ‘he who laughs last, laughs best’.
“The last has not been heard of this matter and we eagerly anticipate
the actual ruling of the Tribunal when the case proper begins.”
Meanwhile, a coalition of presidential candidates that participated
in the 2019 general elections has said the controversy over the alleged
electronic transmission of results to the central server of INEC during
the February 28 presidential poll is intended to discredit election.
The presidential candidate of the Advanced Peoples Democratic
Alliance (APDA), Shittu Mohammed, spoke on behalf of the coalition, at a
press briefing in Abuja, yesterday.
The PDP and INEC have been on a warpath over the existence of a
central server allegedly used by the electoral body for the conduct of
the 2019 presidential poll.
While the opposition party insists that results were electronically
transmitted to the server, INEC said nothing of such happened
However, Mohammed, who is also the National Chairman of APDA stated
that INEC, in one of its engagements, had informed political parties
that the absence of a new electoral law will make it impossible for the
commission to electronically transmit results from the field to the
headquarters.
“The needless controversy over the INEC server would have been lawful
as it would have been mandatory for the Commission to deploy the
server. We are aware that INEC had run pilots on electronic transmission
of results. It had informed us that these pilots were deployed in
Anambra, Ondo, Ekiti and Osun Governorship elections.
“However, INEC informed all political parties in the election
following the non-passage of the Electoral Act that it would not deploy
the electronic transmission of results since it would not be lawful to
do so.
“We must inform Nigerians now that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
was represented in those meetings and we do not know why they are
heating up the polity with the server story.
“This INEC server controversy is a deliberate ploy to destroy the
integrity of our electoral process. Can the so-called results from the
server be referred to as credible where INEC could not have legitimately
transmitted results of the presidential or any of the other elections
electronically?” Mohammed queried.
Furthermore, the APDA chairman stated that the coalition have
thoroughly examined the conduct of the 2019 general elections and came
to the conclusion that INEC performed creditably.
Regardless, he called on the National Assembly to urgently revisit
the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, which was passed by the eighth
Assembly, noting that the bill, if signed into law, will enhance the
electoral process in the country.
The National Chairman of National Unity Party (NUP), Chief Perry
Opara, who also spoke, urged politicians to always seek redress in court
whenever there were issues, as a way of growing democracy in the
country.
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