Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general elections, Atiku Abubakar and his party have approached the Supreme Court to grant them access to a supposed server purportedly used to transmit election results by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) in a ruling on June 24, 2019 had rejected a similar request they made in a motion on notice that was dismissed, a decision Atiku and the PDP have now appealed before the Supreme Court via a notice of appeal filed on June 26, 2019.

Atiku and his party want the Supreme Court to allow their appeal and set aside the June 24, 2019 ruling of the PEPT.

In rejecting the application, the PEPT had held, among others that granting their request would amount to pre-judging the issue in the substantive case, which is whether or not INEC has a central server, which it deployed for the purpose of transmitting results during the last presidential election.

The PEPT was of the view that granting the reliefs sought by Atiku and the PDP at the pre-hearing stage, when parties have joined issues on the dispute over the existence and use of a central server, would amount to agreeing with the petitioners (Atiku and the PDP) that a INEC had a central server which it deployed to transmit results during the election.

The preponderance of the claim by Atiku and his party is to the effect that they won the last presidential election going by the results they claimed to have got from the said central server allegedly owned and deployed for the election by INEC.

In the notice of appeal which The Nation sighted in Abuja yesterday, Atiku and the PDP are attacking the tribunal’s ruling on four grounds, the first being that the PEPT was in error when “contrary to the provisions of Section 151 (l) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) they refused to grant the application of the Appellants on the ground that it will amount to pre-judging the issue in the substantive case.”

They argued that their application was legitimately brought within the confines of Section 151(1) of the Electoral Act,’2010 (as amended), which allows for an order for an inspection of a polling document or any other packet in the custody of the Chief National Electoral Commissioner or any other Officer of the commission for purpose of, inter alia, maintaining the election petition.

The appellants argued that their request was simply to be allowed to access and inspect “the information stored in the database packets in the 1st respondent’s (INEC’s) central server, such that all the parties were to be given an opportunity to participate in the inspection.”

On the second ground, they argued that the tribunal was in error when it failed to exercise its discretion in their favour despite placing sufficient materials placed before it.



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Which server exactly? SQL, FTP, PROXY, or VPN ?

Atiku must be a lavish dreamer, and can never be trusted with our treasury again. Never!!!

Na so these people go find server till case end.

This server matter self don tire me...

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Atiku will still be begging for server from God even on the Judgment Day in afterlife.

Atiku stop wasting your money...... PDP time to "thief" has passed.... Let the new Association of Past Criminals "thief" their own...

If you are not tired of stealing or you have EFCC case... Join APC...

Click the link here

I'm fucking tired of the Virus called bet9ja guys above

this matter go loooooong

Impossible.... Inspect what..... Oga leave buhari to work

Buhari has position his stooges in supreme court.It will be difficulty for them to go against his wish.

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Dem say dem no get server. Abi na by force?

Nawa for Atiku.
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Will server tell u number of people that voted for apc and pdp? If server is even accessible, it will only show numbers of accredited voters... Atiku should go to coza

Oya come take am!

INEC server is one of our 'yams'

We will never allow Kleptomaniacs to have a sight of it let a lone touching.

INEC should just give it up already

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There we go again!

It’s like these PDP are stark raving mad. Which server?

A beg make INEC kuku sell their server to ATIKU,S COMPANY intel oo,this one wey Atiku dey chase INEC everywhere on this server matter,abi na him even install the server for INEC sef,he be like say Atiku hide something inside that server wey he forget

For INEC to evade inspection of its server, means there's something there they don't want the world to know

Oga atiku, the world has moved on. Biko ep yasef and rest

Atiku need to be visited by pastor fatpreeqyinbo

9jayes:
I'm fucking tired of the Virus called bet9ja guys above

Why you click the link

Or they never transmmited results to any server. How can INEC provide what it doesnt have?

aolawale025:
For INEC to evade inspection of its server, means there's something there they don't want the world to know