The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday insisted that it had no electronic server being sought to be accessed and inspected by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate in the February 23, 2019 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

The commission had earlier denied the existence of such server in its reply filed on April 10, 2019 to oppose Atiku and PDP’s petition pending before the five-man tribunal.

The petitioners are by their petition challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress at the last presidential election.

INEC, Buhari and the APC who are the respondents to the petition and to the petitioners’ application for access to the server used for the election, on Thursday, asked the Justice Mohammed Garba-led panel to dismiss the petitioners’ request.

The three respondents, through their respective counsels, reminded the tribunal that the Court of Appeal had, on May 6, 2019 (before the petition was filed on May 18), dismissed a similar application filed by the petitioners.

Represented at the Thursday’s proceedings by its lead counsel, Mr. Yunus Usman (SAN), INEC said the application by the petitioners amounted to asking the commission to produce what it did not have.

Urging the tribunal to dismiss the application, Usman said, “We attached as Exhibit 1, the enrolled order of this honourable court made on May 6, 2019 refusing all the prayers of the petitioners in this application.

“They said we should bring what we don’t have.”

INEC had declared Buhari and APC the winner of the February 23 election.

It said Buhari polled 15,191,847 votes to defeat his closest rival, Atiku, who polled 11,262,978 votes.

But Atiku and the PDP, in their petition filed on March 18 challenging the outcome of the poll, contended that “from the data” obtained from INEC’s server, “the true, actual and correct results” showed that they polled a total of 18,356,732 votes to defeat Buhari whom they said scored 16,741,430 votes.

By calculation, Atiku and PDP claimed to have defeated Buhari by 1,615,302 votes.

The petitioners, through their lead counsel, Dr. Livy Ozoukwu, subsequently filed an application on May 8, 2019, seeking an order of the tribunal permitting them to access and inspect the INEC’s server into which results and other data were allegedly transmitted during the February 23 poll.

A senior member of the petitioners’ legal team, Chief Chris Uche (SAN), moved the application on Thursday.

Uche urged the tribunal to grant the application in the interest of justice, transparency and neutrality, saying it was necessary for his team to be able to maintain the petition.

He said, “The application in summary asks for access to and inspection of the server of the INEC and the smart card readers used in the conduct of the presidential election.

“We have addressed the issues in our counter-affidavit, written address and reply on points of law and we urge your lordships that the application be granted as prayed in the interest of justice, transparency and neutrality.

“The application is necessary for the maintenance of this petition.”

Reacting first, INEC’s lead counsel, Usman, referred the tribunal to his client’s counter-affidavit filed on May 23 in opposition to the application.

He added that the Court of Appeal having earlier refused similar application, same should not be granted again.

The leader of Buhari’s legal team, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), also urged the tribunal to dismiss the application.

Source; https://maniagist.com/2019/06/13/atiku-pdp-asking-us-for-server-that-we-dont-have-inec-tells-tribunal/

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Atiku should take over from nnamdi kanu and stop distracting our president

Atiku will never be the president of Nigeria, he can only be the president of ipob.

Bitchiamjay:
Same inec wey introduce Electronic voting before election?

Now them no get server.

This country is one funny mur'Fvcker


It's crystal that Atiku won the election.

Inec is really taking orders from mohammadu buhari

I can't fit laugh.

did you vote electronically?
you voted manually and your results were transmitted and collated manually.

Professor Mahmoud Yakubu should be put in the dock to answer questions under oath

Let him deny that INEC did not transmit results to a server under oath

krendo:
Professor Mahmoud Yakubu should be put in the dock to answer questions under oat

Let him deny that INEC did not transmit results to a server under oat

if results were transmitted to server, why will the returning officers fly to Abuja to announce and correct the results.

NOC1:

if results were transmitted to server, why will the returning officers fly to Abuja to announce and correct the results.

This is not the time to infer

Let Prof Yakubu come and tell under oath what the laid down process for the election was and what he thinks actually happened

From there we will know next steps

Under normal circumstances INEC should be co-operating with the courts, and not defending the outcomes of the process

The only reason INEC feel a duty to defend the 2019 election result is because they were the actual riggers of the election

Professor Yakubu will go to prison for criminal conspiracy to rig the elections and pervert justice if he does not take time. He has been caught pants down and the earlier he starts Co-operating the better for him!

krendo:



This is not the time to infer

Let Prof Yakubu come and tell under oat what the laid down process for the election was and what he thinks actually happened

From there we will know next steps

Under normal circumstances INEC should be co-operating with the courts, and not defending the outcomes of the process

The only reason INEC feel a duty to defend the 2019 election result is because they were the actual riggers of the election

Professor Yakubu will go to prison for criminal conspiracy to rig the elections and pervert justice if he does not take time. He has been caught pants down and the earlier he starts Co-operating the better for him!

Quaker oats abi?

And the card readers were transmitting info to where.... space?

Once this petition is quashed and dismissed, Atiku’s life is shattered because all his petitions were framed around this one. That to me is a senseless thing to do. Wailers will cry oo

After inec said PDP hack their server and it criminal allegations. Now no server hmmm I love this country, u can do anything if u have power

Isn't it laughable? We didn't vote electronically and someone is busy relying on something called server.. the only solution is to push for e-voting.

Bitchiamjay:
Same inec wey introduce Electronic voting before election?

Now them no get server.

This country is one funny mur'Fvcker


It's crystal that Atiku won the election.

Inec is really taking orders from mohammadu buhari

I can't fit laugh.

Woaah!
You voted electronically?

Bitchyouarejay!

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krendo:



This is not the time to infer

Let Prof Yakubu come and tell under oat what the laid down process for the election was and what he thinks actually happened

From there we will know next steps

Under normal circumstances INEC should be co-operating with the courts, and not defending the outcomes of the process

The only reason INEC feel a duty to defend the 2019 election result is because they were the actual riggers of the election

Professor Yakubu will go to prison for criminal conspiracy to rig the elections and pervert justice if he does not take time. He has been caught pants down and the earlier he starts Co-operating the better for him![/s]

Trash.

krendo:



This is not the time to infer

Let Prof Yakubu come and tell under oat what the laid down process for the election was and what he thinks actually happened

From there we will know next steps

Under normal circumstances INEC should be co-operating with the courts, and not defending the outcomes of the process

The only reason INEC feel a duty to defend the 2019 election result is because they were the actual riggers of the election

Professor Yakubu will go to prison for criminal conspiracy to rig the elections and pervert justice if he does not take time. He has been caught pants down and the earlier he starts Co-operating the better for him!

Hummm the chief justice of Biafra land has spoken but you forget to know our existing electoral law does not recognise electronics voting .sorry frustrated wailers always reason upside down .

Is INEC translate only presidential elect to server because i am confused.

INEC now claiming no server when budgets were made for server and audio and videos of e-collation right before the election.

Esseite:
So where were the figures in card readers transmitted to?... as the corpers alleged to have transmitted those results.

Which figures in card reader?

Card reader was only used to read the voters card for accreditation and not for voting.

simonlee:
And the card readers were transmitting info to where.... space?

EXACTLY!

adekolaelect:
Hummm the chief justice of Biafra land has spoken but you forget to know our existing electoral law does not recognise electronics voting .sorry frustrated wailers always reason upside down .

when they have no credible arguments they get racist and tribalistic

divide and rule wont work this time

Atiku and Buhari are both Hausa Fulani

All Nigerians are saying is justice must prevail. Our votes must count!

INEC Statement On Card Reader Demonstration

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday, 09th March 2015, met to consider field reports from the public demonstration of Smart Card Readers (SCRs) conducted in 12 states on Saturday, March 07th 2015. The states were Rivers and Delta (South-South), Kano and Kebbi (North-West), Anambra and Ebonyi (South East), Ekiti and Lagos (South West), Bauchi and Taraba (North East) as well as Niger and Nasarawa (North Central).

The Commission observed that its decision to deploy SCRs for the 2015 general elections have FOUR main objectives, namely:

(i) To verify Permanent Voter cards (PVCs) presented by voters at polling units and ensure that they are genuine, INEC-issued (not cloned) cards. From the reports on Saturday’s exercise, this objective was achieved 100 per cent.

(ii) To biometrically authenticate the person who presents a PVC at the polling unit and ensure that he/she is the legitimate holder of the card. In this regard, there were a few issues in some states during the public demonstration. Overall, 59% of voters who turned out for the demonstration had their fingerprints successfully authenticated. But the Commission, in agreement with registered political parties, had provided in the approved Guidelines for the conduct of the 2015 elections that where biometric authentication of a legitimate holder of a genuine PVC becomes challenging, there could be physical authentication of the person and completion of an Incident Form, to allow the person to vote.

(iii) The SCRs provide disaggregated data of accredited voters in male/female and elderly/youth categories – a disaggregation that is vital for research and planning purposes, but which INEC until now had been unable to achieve. The demonstration on Saturday fully served this objective.

(iv) The Smart Card Reader sends the data of all accredited voters to INEC’s central server, equipping the Commission to be able to audit figures subsequently filed by polling officials at the PU and, thereby, be able to determine if fraudulent alterations were made. The public demonstration also succeeded wholly in this regard.

The Commission nevertheless took a serious view of the high rate of the SCRs’ failure to authenticate voters’ fingerprints in some areas, particularly in Ebonyi State, and has decided to thoroughly investigate the cause; as well as repeat the public demonstration in that state. This demonstration will be conducted in the particular Registration Area involved in the last exercise, namely Izzi Unuhu (Abakaliki Local Government Area); as well as in Ibii/Oziza Registration Area (Afikpo North LGA). The repeat demonstration will be on Saturday, March 14th2015.

INEC is satisfied that the use of SCRs in the 2015 general elections will add tremendous transparency and credibility to the accreditation process on Election Day. The Commission hereby reassures the public that it will do everything necessary to ensure that the processes of the elections are seamless, free, fair, credible and peaceful.



Kayode Robert Idowu

Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman

10th March 2015.

Source: https://inecnigeria.org/news-all/inec-statement-on-card-reader-demonstration/

Conclusion: Smart Card readers work with the INEC server. Without central server, the smart card readers will not function and will be useless.
If the 2019 presidential elections was conducted with smart card readers then there is a server. In addition, I recall that INEC budgeted the sum of N220million for INEC server maintenance during the 2019 elections which was duly approved by the FG. So, INEC where is your server?

adekolaelect:
Hummm the chief justice of Biafra land has spoken but you forget to know our existing electoral law does not recognise electronics voting .sorry frustrated wailers always reason upside down .

The electoral act recognises INEC guideline as the basis for the election and as such gives legal backing to whatever laid down provisions INEC made for the election.

INEC included electronic transmission of results in its own guideline, budgeted for it, NASS approved money to support it, INEC trained its own staff on how to transmit result electronically, granted press conferences on the eve of election that results were to be transmitted electronically, and INEC staff with authority and responsibility are also bearing witness to the transmission of results on election day by electronic media

in the face of all this reality INEC and Prof Yakubu can not just wake up 3 days after the elections and claim none of the above happened just because they falsified the results in favour of Buhari

That will just not happen

The courts will have a hard time to rule against the facts. INEC will have a hard time explaining either why it did not follow its own procedure OR why they are denying their own procedure they followed!

Buhari has already lost legitimacy and any claim he has to power is gone for good.

If he sits tight and does not allow the courts do their job then he will simply be legitimising a "coup de tat" because our democracy will in effect become pointless!

The people's votes must count otherwise let military come back!

we cant continue to spend 242 billion on a meaningless electoral process.

PDP/Atiku should demand that Prof Jega is questioned under Oath! Let him lie to the court and deny there was no server lets see!

INEC,Apc and Buhari are funny.Initially they accuse ATIKU and PDP of hacking into INEC server.On the other hand they denied transmitting any result to INEC server,now they are saying they don't have server.It is very clear that INEC, Apc and Buhari have cockroach in their cupboard.

What a clown..

Yakub just shot himself in the leg... This new development is not smart at all. Yakub will go to jail sooner or later...

PDP mumu no be small, thank God buhari refused to sign the electoral law facilitating electronic transmission

In simple terms avoiding all legal terminology, PDP depends on evidence from their opponent, to prosecute a case against the said opponent.

You claim your neighbor eat your meat and your landlord ask for evidence, then you point at his tummy saying you hacked his tummy and saw your meat.

Nigeria doesn't even have 80% network coverage of its landmass, so which network did PDP cardreader used in transmitting the result they cooked up, so polling unit in the bayelsa creeks, and maiduguri desert transmitted result to abuja server.

Wow PDP 5G network. Turaya lomo

No wonder Big league lawyers avoid PDP like thrash, argueing with/for/ or Against PDP/IPOB miscreants is a big punishment as they argue like a deaf mute




.

Smh.

About 13 Presiding Officers (POs) in Borno and Yobe states have told the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja 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).

The POs in 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 election of President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressive Congress (APC), stated that the election body had, during their training, instructed them on how to transmit the results to its server.

https://www.thecable.ng/presiding-officers-we-transmitted-election-results-to-inec-server/amp
INEC under Prof.Mamud Yakubu dont know how to tell lies.Spits.

SolexOlenin:
Yakub just shot himself in the leg... This new development is not smart at all. Yakub will go to jail sooner or later...

not in a country like Nigeria

You don’t have the sever yet you boasted of doing electronic transmission which was budgeted for and the National Assembly approved..

Yakubu you need to do your explanations from jail period!