This is a story of how INEC and its team developed a laudable scientific formula to conduct free and fair elections in Nigeria, but somewhere along the line, the Chairman developed cold fit at the instance of the godfather of election manipulation and allegedly scuttled the idea. Overnight, he became a major critic of his own invention.
I am reposting this Video for the second time because of the latest developments at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. INEC's major case before the Tribuna is that the deployment of Server during the election did not take place. That is also the case of the legal team of President Buhari.
The question remains: why the emphasis on the Central Server. And why is the deployment or the lack of it so important? Please, watch the video playing below.
These people - INEC Chairman and his team - had a dream to do what is right for Nigerians and conduct a free and fair election. In furtherance of that dream, they came up with the idea of electronic transmission of vote counts from all voting locations throughout Nigeria knowing full well that the manipulation and corruption of vote counts do take place between the voting centers and the collation centers. And they went about acquiring and updating all the necessary gadgets and software to ensure the process went smoothly. Once again, see the video, because it speaks for itself.
The Chairman of INEC knew very well that if he testifies that indeed electronic collation did take place during the Presidential election, Atiku would be able to prove his case handily. Because the records are readily available via the Central Server.
That is the major reason that Professor Mahmood Yakubu is singing a different song, to wit, there was no server on standby during the election. Therefore, there was no electronic transmission of vote counts.
The Chairman of INEC and the Presidency did not prepare for litigation or expect that Mr. Atiku Abubakar would go to the Tribunal to seek redress. Confronted with that reality of losing big at the Tribunal, the best they could do was to kill the case mathematically rather than legally - frustrate electronic transmission.
In spite of the behind the scene machinations of the Comrade and the show of shame of the Professor, the Atiku/Obi team has been able to prove beyond every reasonable doubt that :
(1) INEC rigged the election and cooked the results in favor of President Buhari,
(2) That Atiku/Obi had a significantly higher number of vote counts than President Buhari,
(3) That the results were transmitted Electronically by INEC agents to the Central Server consistent with instructions and training provided by INEC Agents before the election, and
(4) That INEC Servers were indeed in full deployment during the Presidential election.
On the other hand, the Presidential legal team and INEC Lawyers have not been able to prove that the election was not rigged or that Atiku/Obi did not score a decisive win.
Their case from day one are (1) there was no Central Server, (2) there wasn't electronic transmission of votes during the election, and (3) even if there was, there is no law authorizing INEC to embrace or adopt electronic transactions of vote counts in Nigeria during the Presidential election.
The position of INEC Chairman is consistent with the case of the APC lawyers - there was no Central Server at all during the Presidential election.
In both arguments, INEC and the APC Lawers have been proven wrong by Atiku/Obi legal team. About three witnesses testified that they transmitted the votes recorded at their polling stations Electronically to the Central office Server as they were trained to do before the Presidential election. Secondly, logistically, INEC does not need any law to guide it on what to do to ensure a watertight free and fair election.
As the case stands today, it doesn't matter how many agents testify that they did transmit their vote counts to the Central Server Electronically. What is relevant is whether or not INEC has active server during the Presidential election. And the answer is yes, whether or Chairman Mahmood Yakubu is willing to agree. The Tribal should not trust this Chairman and the Lawyers representing the President, because their stories have changed so many times. Each time they are caught in their lies, they would come up with a different story.
With the electronic transmission of votes, Comrade Adam Oshiomole would not have been able to cook the Edo State Gubernatorial election in favor of his anointed candidate a few years ago. And it is the Edo State model they replicated in the Presidential election. No man or woman can stop the Comrade in votes manipulation industry. Only electronic transmission can. Now you know why Professor Lack-of-Integrity is having difficulties subscribing to a laudable model he developed for INEC and for the rest of the world.
Whether he likes it or not, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has set himself up for criminal prosecution. if not now, but somewhere some days ahead.
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