Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and his Peoples Democratic Party had eggs on their faces Friday as the theory of an INEC server, the pillar of their cases against President Muhammadu Buhari collapsed like a house built with sand.
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There was no INEC server. There was no result published on
INEC server. Atiku had been scammed big time and it will go into the records as
the scam of the century.
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That was the loud and clear message at the Presidential
Election Tribunal in Abuja as Atiku closed his case and the court adjourned
till 29 July for the defence to open its case.
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There is certainly no need for the defence to open any case.
There is nothing to defend as Atiku and the PDP had failed convincingly to
prove the existence of any other result apart from the one declared by INEC on
27 February, with Buhari beating Atiku by about four million votes. Buhari got
15.1 million votes, Atiku got 11.2million votes.
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According to Atiku, the INEC server gave him victory over
Buhari, winning 18,356,732 votes to defeat Buhari who he claimed scored
16,741,430 votes.
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With the anti-climax of Friday, Atiku's case, all the past
weeks had become a riveting theatre of the absurd and entertainment. He and his
team of legal luminaries and witnesses had wasted everyone's time, pushing a
specious thesis that does not exist. A server, now where is the server?
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On the last day of providing irrefutable proof that he won
the presidential election and beat President Muhammadu Buhari, Atiku's two
'star witnesses' were a study in high comedy.
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Both the uncertified 'expert' from Kenya, David Ayu Nyango
Njoga and former aviation minister Osita Chidoka miserably failed to establish
the existence of the server allegedly used by the Independent National
Electoral Commission for the transmission of election results during the last
general elections.
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Incredibly the two star witnesses, who claimed they had
information that INEC used a server, got their information from anonymous
sources, possibly in a beer parlour or the dark web of whistleblowing.
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Both witnesses stammered when challenged to authenticate
their claims.
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Chidoka ought to have known better. He was a witness to the
manual collation of the presidential election result at the International
Conference Centre in Abuja after the election on 23 February. How did he come
about the INEC server theory?
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He confirmed to the Presidential Election Tribunal that the
results were collated nationwide manually, and still added idiotically that he
learnt the result of the election was "transmitted by INEC electronically to
the INEC server.ÔÇØ
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He collapsed under cross-examination by lawyer to INEC,
Yunus Usman (SAN). When asked if he witnessed the transmission, Chidoka said he
was not present when the alleged electronic transmission was done.
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On whether he has ever seen the said server or known its
location, the witness said: "I have not seen the server, but before the
election and during collation, the INEC Chairman talked about the existence of
server.ÔÇØ
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Was Chidoka oblivious of the fact that INEC chairman Mahmood
Yakubu ruled out electronic transmission of results even before we went to the
polls?
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When asked to provide the server address, Chidoka said the
one he referred to was the same address provided by the anonymous
whistleblower.
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Chidoka said he witnessed the manual collation of election
results at the national level and was told by his party's agents that collation
was also manual at the state, ward and polling unit levels.
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Under cross-examination by lawyer to President Muhammadu
Buhari, Dr. Alex Izinyon (SAN), Chidoka admitted that he did not witness all he
claimed happened during the election.
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Njoga, who claimed to be an Information Technology (ICT)
expert from Kenya, said he was engaged by the petitioners to analyse results of
the election as obtained from INEC server and stored in a
website:"https://www.factsdontlieng.com/.ÔÇØ
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When asked whether INEC owns the website, the witness said
no, but that the data it contains are from INEC server.
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Njoga, claimed that the website:
"https://www.factsdontlieng.com/ÔÇØ is owned by an INEC official, who provided
the election result figures. When asked to name the said INEC official, the
witness said: "My lord, the INEC official is anonymous and I do not know him.ÔÇØ
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Under cross-examination by the leader of Buhari's legal
team, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), Njoka said the website was created on March
12, 2019. When reminded that the presidential election held on February 23 and
the results released before March 12, the witness went blank.
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The resounding collapse of Atiku's INEC server may have
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His other redeeming planks remain whether he has proven
substantially election irregularities in the states.
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It remains to be seen from 29 July, whether this is also not
another illusion.
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*News Analysis by P.M.NEWS Editors
