About 13 Presiding Officers (POs) in Borno and Yobe states have come out to support Atiku’s claim that they transmitted the results of the February 23 Presidential election in their various units and wards to the official server of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Reporting to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja, the PO’s gave their respective Witness Statement of Oath in support of the petition filed by the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, challenging the decision of the electoral body for declaring President Muhammadu Buhari winner of the election.

Atiku in his written petition alleged that the INEC pulled down the official results from its server and consequently replaced it with a false one to favour President Buhari. The position of the POs, however, contradicted the submission of INEC who had stated in its reply to the petition that results were not sent to its server.

INEC had declared President Buhari as the winner of the February 23 election, having polled 15,191,847 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Atiku, who polled 11,262,978. But, Atiku in his 139- page petition before the tribunal stated that from the data in INEC’s server, the true, actual and correct results showed that he (Atiku) secured a total of 18,356,732 votes against Buhari’s 16,741,430 votes.

On its part, INEC stated that there was no result in its server and that the presidential election results were not transmitted electronically.

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