An internal circular of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has indicated that the commission transmitted voter information from smart card readers to a central server during the 2019 presidential elections.

The document, which was first posted on social media by Reno Omokri, an opposition PDP operative, on Wednesday afternoon, carried a directive from national secretary of INEC, Rose Oriaran-Anthony, to other senior officials of the commission on challenges recorded in transmitting voter accreditation data to a server.

“The commissioner has observed, with deep concerns, the number of smart card readers (SCRs) that do not have data of accredited voters in the just concluded presidential/NASS elections nationwide,” Ms Oriaran-Anthony said in the March 25 letter to all resident electoral commissioners (RECs) across the country.

The top electoral officer also noted in the memo that 4,786 smart card readers did not have data on accredited voters following the presidential election on February 23, representing about four per cent of the total SCRs deployed for that exercise.

“Attached is the chart, showing the PUs (polling units) not uploaded to the SCR accreditation backend, for each of the states,” Ms Oriaran-Anthony added in the memo.

Ms Oriaran-Anthony then directed all concerned RECs to liaise with their technical and electoral operations officials to clarify why the card readers failed to upload accreditation data on election day. They were given until March 28 to submit their replies.

Festus Okoye, a spokesperson for INEC, declined several attempts by PREMIUM TIMES to get his comments on the internal memo.

The document marks yet another pressure on the electoral body over whether or not it used a central server to collect data from polling units across the country on election day.

The commission has insisted that it was not in possession of any central server for the conduct of the election, saying doing so would have contradicted the Electoral Act. INEC maintained the position despite overwhelming claim to the contrary by some of its presiding officers in the election.

Many of the presiding officers and their subordinates have since sworn affidavit to testify against the commission in favour of Atiku Abubakar, the PDP’s candidate and main challenger to President Muhammadu Buhari, who was declared winner of the election.

PREMIUM TIMES also found last month that INEC budgeted nearly N1.5 billion for server installations ahead of the presidential election.

But the commission told the elections tribunal that it had no server and Mr Abubakar and his team were only being mischievous. A former chairman of INEC, Attahiru Jega, also told PREMIUM TIMES that there was no server during his days at INEC, and expressed doubts about any resent installation of such facilities under Yakubu Mahmood.

Mr Abubakar’s legal team said the opposition leader won the presidential election but was rigged out by INEC officials who allegedly compromised to return Mr Buhari to power.

The elections tribunal denied Mr Abubakar’s request to inspect INEC’s server last month, saying granting such an order would presuppose that the court had ruled that the server actually existed.

As an ex corper I transmitted results to the sever through E-collection from the card reader using a code INEC gave us

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Bursted!

Premium Times reportage of this news is better as compared to what other media houses are saying about this. The INEC REC who gave out this accreditation server info to Wendell Simlin aka Reno Omokri could have equally given him any information regarding a voter collation server if it existed. This confirms there was no voter result collation to any server anywhere.

Victorblaze14:
As an ex corper I transmitted results to the sever through E-collection from the card reader using a code INEC gave us

Go to the tribunal and reveal your code. Your paid types were unable to reveal theirs at the tribunal.

That means the numbers of people that voted with PVC makes Atiku the winner while the yahoo yahoo election or ringing makes Buhari Won

JusticeSeeker:
Premium Times reportage of this news is better as compared to what other media houses are saying about this. The INEC REC who gave out this accreditation server info to Wendell Simlin aka Reno Omokri could have equally given him any information regarding a voter collation server if it existed. This confirms there was no voter result collation to any server anywhere.

Olga to be a supporter should not means you should lie or defend what you do not know.

I cover a ward as an accredited observer for an NGO. Attached to the SPO was a Technical Support who answers queris as related to SCRs.

At the ward centre, all available results were all captured using a tablet. I personally asked him what for, he told me they were instructed to up load the result to INEC server.

Lalasticalala FP please

JusticeSeeker:
Go to the tribunal and reveal your code. Your paid types were unable to reveal theirs at the tribunal.

Nigerians don't take things seriously, we were not allowed to go home until we upload to the sever please go and ask any of ur family members that was a corper during the election they will tell you better

Hmmmmm deep

PDP are being tactical

This is a warning to INEC all the facts are out there

INEC needs to start telling the truth

PDP should immediately demand that Rose appears in the duck and testify under Oath let’s see if she is willing to tell lies and go to jail for misleading the court and obstructing justice

After that Prof Yakubu should be made to testify as well

So, what is the way forward?
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-1).In the wake of these criticisms, PREMIUM TIMES published a 2017 comment by INEC’s Director of Information and Communication Technology, Chidi Nwafor, countering the current position of the commission.

“INEC has therefore decided to securely transmit results from all polling units to central database such that only viewing access is allowed at the wards and local government levels – which ultimately eliminates manual collation processes,” Mr Nwafor, said then.

-2).Similarly, the ICIR also published a report on INEC’s budget for the 2019 election in which the commission earmarked N2.27 billion for procurement of server-related items.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/335566-exclusive-jega-speaks-on-inec-server-controversy.html

krendo:
PDP are being tactical.This is a warning to INEC all the facts are out there.INEC needs to start telling the truth

PDP should immediately demand that Rose appears in the duck and testify under Oath let’s see if she is willing to tell lies and go to jail for misleading the court and obstructing justice.After that Prof Yakubu should be made to testify as well

INEC must be so daft to tell the whole world they dont have or used a server because modern electoral advancement advocated for electronic voting.

Buhari govt anticipated electoral defeat based on the trial done by INEC in the pilot states hence the delay to sign the much better 2019 electoral amendments act citing stupid reasons.INEC have an albatross before it. Very interesting times ahead.

I personally heard INEC official say on radio that INEC will relay election results at all poling units in the country to their servers as part of their plan to curb ballot box snatching and tearing of results sheets in coming 2019 presidential elections, thereby making election results more credibla and acceptable. INEC said this severaly on radio sometimes between Nov, December 2018 and January before presidential elections in Febuary 2019. For them to come out months later after the sham presidential elections in history and deny existence of server, the same server they spoke about several times to curb ballot box snatching in 2019 presidential elections on tv and radio is nothing but plain STUPIDTY. Fortunately not everyone is stupid like them. Atiku himself NEVER expected INEC and buhari to organize a free and fair elections, hence his plan to monitor election results real time as it happens in conjuction with European Union.
INEC can keep on lying about having no server. Their own lies will be their undoing.
Atiku and PDP made a wise decision by using INEC server as keypoint in presidential tribunal. Before this is over, Nigerians will be shown in black and white who the terrible liars are in Nigeria.


As soon as the presidential tribunal is over, INEC chairman should be arested and prosecuted.

One thing is crystal clear.
INEC rigged this election in favour of our Aboki Presido

When they said there was no saver I laugh. I work as an APO1 card reader operator. We were told by our rachtech. The technician attached to our ward, that after elections, we should not close view, as we will have to transmit our result to a saver, and give him a copy of the result too.

This were all done true E-Collation. We did it in both elections. The parties on the E-Collation were APC, PDP and two other parties or so. But not more than 4parties on it.

As for me, I did transmit my polling unit result. Rachtechs know better.

Hmmmm. It's getting clearer

Victorblaze14:

Nigerians don't take things seriously, we were not allowed to go home until we upload to the sever please go and ask any of ur family members that was a corper during the election they will tell you better

Ignore that APC zonebee. They are all part of the reason this country has remained stagnant without any viable progress and why Nigeria as a country is mocked internationally.