The presidential election
petition tribunal says there is no evidence that the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) transmitted results of the last presidential
election to any server.
Atiku Abubakar, presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had said results from the
server of INEC show he defeated President Muhammadu Buhari in the 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 federal capital territory (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.
But in his ruling on Thursday,
Mohammed Garba, the presiding judge, said the petitioners failed to prove the
existence of an INEC server or that the electoral commission transmitted
results electronically.
Garba said there is no law in
place in Nigeria that allows electronic transmission of results or the
transmission of result using card reader.
“I have carefully examined
exhibit 28 (INEC Manual for Election) tendered by the petitioners, I did not
see where there is provision for electronic transmission of result of
election,” Garba held.
“There is no provision
authorising the first respondent (INEC) or any of its officers to transfer
election results to any of the server.”
In a boost to Buhari, the
tribunal had also ruled that he is eminently qualified to stand for election.
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