Result Atiku Presented Was Fabricated, INEC To Tribunal

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC has told the Presidential Electoral Tribunal that the result which the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and it’s Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar claimed to have retrieved from its internet server was fabricated.

In its response to the result which Atiku presented to the Tribunal to show that he won the just concluded presidential election, the electoral umpire’s filing at the tribunal partly reads: “Further to the foregoing, the website described as www.factsdontlieng.com was neither created nor owned by the 1st Respondent (INEC). It is a site not known to the 1st Respondent.

“The 1st Respondent does not share information with such an unclassified entity and any information purportedly derived therefrom which does not accord with the result as declared by the 1st Respondent is not authentic but rather was invented for the purpose of this case.

“The 1st Respondent (INEC) did not adopt electronic transmission or collation of results in the conduct of the election, voting by electronic means not having been adopted as a provision of the Electoral Act. The 1st Respondent specifically denies the existence of electronic transmission of results as it is unknown to the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended) and Regulations and Guidelines for the conduct of the elections, 2019, and put the Petitioners to the strictest of proof thereof.”

While the official result declared by INEC showed that President Muhammadu Buhari scored 15,191,847 votes to defeat Atiku who got 11,262,978 votes, the PDP candidate claimed that the server result he obtained showed that he scored a total of 18,356,732 votes to defeat President Buhari, who allegedly got 16,741,430 votes.