The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it does not have a server where results of the presidential election were uploaded.
The electoral commission was reacting to the request of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The PDP and Atiku had asked the tribunal to compel INEC to allow them inspect smart card readers and the server.
The opposition party and its candidate are challenging the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari as winner of the presidential election that held in February.
At the tribunal on Thursday, Yunus Usman, counsel to INEC, said the party was asking something they did not have.
“They are asking us to bring something we do not have,” the lawyer said.
Usman asked the tribunal to strike out the application.
Also, counsels of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Buhari asked the tribunal to strike out the application of the PDP.
They argued that they could not prove the existence of a server.
The electoral commission said Buhari polled 15,191,847 votes to defeat the former vice-president who secured 11, 262,978.
But Atiku in his application claimed that he polled 18,356,732 votes while Buhari secured 16,741,430, citing INEC’s server.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate, on Thursday prayed the presidential tribunal to order the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to grant them access to inspect the commission’s server.
They also prayed the tribunal to give them permission to inspect other electronic gadgets used by INEC in the February 23 presidential election.
In their petition before the tribunal, the PDP and Atiku are claiming that they won the presidential election as per the results fed into INEC’s server.
Atiku had said results from the server showed that he defeated President Muhammadu Buhari by 1,615,302 votes.
INEC’s polling figures from the 36 states and federal capital territory (FCT) gave Buhari 15,191,847 votes, while Atiku came second with 11,262,978 votes.
But in his petition submitted at the tribunal, the PDP candidate alleged that he garnered a total of 18,356,732 votes to defeat Buhari, who, according to him, polled 16,741,430 votes in the presidential election.
INEC, in response, said the results being paraded by Atiku was fabricated and not from its website.
But in their response to the INEC’s submission, a copy of which was obtained by TheCable, Atiku and the PDP said address of the server from which the results were obtained is unique to INEC.
“The Servers from which the said figures were derived belong to the first Respondent (INEC). The figures and votes were transmitted to the first Respondent’s Presidential Result’s Server 1 and thereafter aggregated in INEC_PRES_RSLT_SRV2019, whose Physical Address or unique Mac Address is 94-57-A5-DC-64-B9 with Microsoft Product ID 00252-7000000000-AA535. The above descriptions are unique to the 15t Respondent’s Server,” they had said.
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