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| Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman |
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that they could not prove the existence of any server where presidential election results were uploaded.
The commission said this in response to Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, requesting for access to inspect the commission’s servers and card readers.
The commission said that the 2019 presidential election results were not transmitted electronically to any server.
Recall that the PDP and Atiku had asked the tribunal to compel INEC to allow them inspect smart card readers and the server.
The opposition party and its candidate are challenging the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari as winner of the presidential election that held in February.
But reacting at the tribunal, Yunus Usman, counsel to INEC, said the party was asking something they did not have.
“They are asking us to bring something we do not have,” the lawyer said.
Usman asked the tribunal to strike out the application.
Also, counsels of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Buhari asked the tribunal to strike out the application of the PDP.
They argued that they could not prove the existence of a server.