Unic Press UK: A former Special Assistant to the former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has released on Twitter copies of documents he claims are irrefutable proof that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of Nigeria indeed had/has a server despite all claims to the contrary by the electoral body.
PROOF of INEC SERVER:
This is a circular from INEC to its 36 Resident Electoral Commissioners, threatening sanctions on RECs who fail to send data to INEC HQ through their server. INCONTROVERTIBLE evidence @INECNigeria has and had a server.#IncontrovertibleProofOfINECServer pic.twitter.com/pcCjcgKS3O
— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) July 10, 2019
MORE PROOF of INEC SERVER:
This is INEC’s manual to its staff, giving them step by step instructions for their conduct on Election Day. Notice steps 5 and 6. This is INCONTROVERTIBLE proof @INECNigeria has and had a server.#IncontrovertibleProofOfINECServer pic.twitter.com/LbWkJNkgjH
— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) July 10, 2019
Whether INEC deployed/used a server during the Nigeria Presidential Election 2019 is one of the central issues to be determined in the election petition filed by the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.
In the petition filed at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on March 18, 2019, Atku is claiming that he won the Nigeria Presidential Election 2019 having garnered 18,356,732 votes when compared to the 16,741,430 votes of Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC); and being in the lead with 1,615,302 based on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) server record of the results from 35 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory as of February 25, 2019. INEC, Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) are the respondents.
The former vice president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) are praying the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal to either declare Atiku winner of the presidential election 2019 or make an order for a fresh election.
Atiku and the PDP are also challenging the eligibility of the incumbent president Muhammadu Buhari to contest the February 23, 2019 Presidential Election 2019, submitting that Buhari does not possess the requisite educational qualification to contest the election to the office of the President of Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The plaintiffs, through their legal team led by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Dr Livy Uzoukwu, are basing the election petition on five grounds, viz.:
- The 2nd respondent (Buhari) was not duly elected by the majority of lawful votes cast at the election.
- The election of the 2nd respondent is invalid by reason of corrupt practices.
- The election of the 2nd Respondent is invalid by reason of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended).
- The 2nd respondent was at the time of the election not qualified to contest the said election.
- The 2nd respondent submitted to the 1st Respondent an affidavit containing false information of a fundamental nature in aid of his qualification for the said election.
Atiku is relying on the circulars/corrigenda/manuals issued by INEC for the conduct of the Presidential Election 2019; a summary of PVC’s collected on units’ basis; security reports; election video/audio recordings; election materials; Newspaper/Television/ Radio reports and news; expert reports and analysis; photographs; phone records; and many other materials
