How INEC Rigged Election Results For Tinubu – Atiku

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of deploying a third-party device to switch the results of the presidential election in favour of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.

Atiku made the allegation in a 66-page petition he lodged before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja.

In the petition marked CA/PEPC/05/2023, Atiku and the PDP listed INEC as 1st respondent, APC as 2nd respondent, and Tinubu as 3rd respondent.

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He further alleged that INEC had, prior to the election, redeployed its in-house ICT expert, Chidi Nwafor, and replaced him with an IT consultant, Suleiman Farouk, that helped it to install the third-party mechanism.

Atiku claimed that Farouk ensured that the device intermediated between the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and the IRev Portal, known as Device Management System (DMS).

He told the court that the DMS was the software that allowed Farouk to remotely control, monitor and filter data that was transmitted from the BVAS devices to the electronic collation system and the IRev platform.

Atiku maintained that INEC, having set the parameters of the poll, did not ensure compliance with the electronic transmission of accreditation data and results in the Election to create an opportunity for manipulation of figures to the advantage of Tinubu and the APC.

The PDP flagbearer said he will during the hearing of the petition, lead evidence to show that there were no technical glitches that prevented the upload and transmission of the polling units results and the accreditation date of the presidential election to the electronic collation system and the IReV portal.

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Atiku and the PDP alleged that what happened was “the non-adherence to the system through a command and control element activated by a pre-programmed design to limit user-privileges of the front-end users of the BVAS machines at the polling units with respect to presidential election results while releasing user privileges in respect of the National Assembly election windows, by selectively withholding correct passwords and/or issuing wrong passwords through the use of the Device Management System equipment aforesaid.”

Arguing that there was no failure of the server as claimed by INEC, the petitioners said they would adduce evidence to show that the “server” being cloud-based, in the event of any unlikely challenge, Amazon Web Service would have seamlessly switched to another server without hitch, being autoscaling groups with multiple network reception and offline upload options.