The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Thursday stated that it has always had servers through which election results were transmitted.
The commission explained that it was, however, opposed the deployment of a server in the post 2019 presidential election litigation because the petitioners at tribunal had argued for the existence of a specific server
INEC made the clarification Thursday at a two-day capacity building workshop themed “Peace Journalism/Conflict Sensitive and Election Reporting” in Abuja.
The server allegation
Challenging the outcome of the February 23, 2019 presidential election won by Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), claimed data from INEC’s server showed he actually polled a total of 18,356,732 votes to defeat Buhari, who had 16,741,430 votes.
Following the claim, former Vice President Abubakar rejected the result declared by INEC from the 36 states and the FCT in…
