The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, in its ongoing ruling on
Wednesday, declared that there is no evidence showing that the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC transmitted the results
of the last presidential election electronically to any server.
The court held that the petitioners, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, failed to prove the existence of any INEC
server.
The judgment still being read on the petition by Atiku and the PDP
challenging the victory of President Buhari and the APC, held that the
petitioners also failed to prove that INEC transmitted results
electronically.
The court held that there is no law in place in Nigeria that allows
electronic transmission of results or the transmission of results using a
card reader.
Justice Mohammed Garba, the president of the Tribunal, said, “I have
carefully examined and examined Exhibit 28 (INEC Manual for Election)
tendered by the petitioners, I did not see where there is provision for
electronic transmission of the result of election.”