No fewer than 13 Presiding\nOfficers (POs) in Borno and Yobe states have revealed at the Presidential\nElection Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja that they transmitted the results\nof the February 23 Presidential election in their various units and wards to\nthe official server of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The POs disclosed this in their\nrespective Witness Statement of Oath in support of the petition filed by the\nPresidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar,\nchallenging the election of President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressive\nCongress (APC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They stated that the INEC had\ninstructed them on how to transmit the results to its server during their\ntraining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The position of the POs, however,\ncontradicted the submission of INEC who had stated in its reply to the petition\nthat results were not sent to its server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Atiku had in his 139-page\npetition before the tribunal stated that from the data in INEC\u2019s server, the\ntrue, actual and correct results showed that he (Atiku) secured a total of\n18,356,732 votes against Buhari\u2019s 16,741,430 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, INEC stated that there was\nno result in its server and that the presidential election results were not\ntransmitted electronically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, in reaction to paragraph\n29 of the 3rd Respondent\u2019s reply, the petitioners said that the data and scores\nin the 1st Respondent\u2019s Server were as transmitted by the 1st Respondent\u2019s\nofficials and those scores are valid, and legitimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Atiku, through his team of\ncounsel, led by Dr. Livy Uzoukwu (SAN), had listed about 13 Presiding Officers\nfrom different wards in Borno State and also attached their witness statement\non oath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All these are contained in\nAtiku\u2019s reply to the objection filed by APC, who is the 3rd respondent, to his\n(Atiku\u2019s) petition before the Presidential tribunal, wherein he is challenging\nthe election that produced Buhari, PremiumTimes reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the POs said, \u201cI was\nemployed as an ad hoc staff and trained for three days by the 1st Respondent at\nthe Government College, Maiduguri, Borno State to serve as a Presiding Officer\n(PO) at Waliri Polling Unit with Code 003, of Shehun Barna Ward, Borno State on\nthe 23rd February, 2019 Presidential and National Assembly (Senate and House of\nRepresentatives) elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe training covered the duties\nof all 1st Respondent\u2019s ad-hoc staff at the polling units and the procedure for\nthe conduct of election which includes accreditation, verification,\nauthentication, collation and transmission of results as well as the use of\nSmart Card Reader (SCR), amongst others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAt the 1st Respondent training,\nwe were specifically instructed that the use of the Smart Card Reader for\naccreditation, verification, authentication, collation and transmission of\nresults is mandatory and that any election conducted without the use of the\nSmart Card Reader would be invalid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI took part in the conduct of\nthe Presidential and National Assembly (Senate and House of Representatives)\nelections of 23rd February, 2019 where I served as the Presiding Officer (PO)\nand I ensured the use of the Smart Card Reader for accreditation, verification,\nauthentication, collation and transmission of votes in my polling unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAt the end of voting, the\ninformation on the Smart Card Reader with the results inclusive, were collated\nby me in the presence of the party agents and other ad-hoc staff of the 1st\nRespondent after which my Assistant Presiding Officer (AP0-1) transmitted the\nresult electronically in my presence to the 1st Respondent\u2019s server, using the\nSmart Card Reader (SCR) and the code provided by the 1st Respondent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, in the witness statements\nof the Presiding Officer of Daza Primary School Code 001,Daze Marte Ward of\nBorno State, who was coded as BU; the Presiding Officer of Mustapha Ali Bama,\nCode 036, Mafoni MCC Ward, who was coded IM; the Presiding Officer of Binkalion\nCode 003, Maisandari Damaturu ward Yobe, coded as AB and APO of Kafan Sarki\nCode 007, Yabir-Gujba of Yobe state, coded as AW; they all admitted that the\nresults of the Presidential election were transmitted electronically to INEC\u2019s\nserver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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