What PDP saw in INEC’s Server cannot remove Buhari from office- Festus Keyamo

The spokesman of the President  Muhammudu Buhari Campaign Organisation, Festus Keyamo has said the claim by Atiku that he beat President Buhari with 1.6 million votes would have no effect before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.

Keyamo (SAN),  had filed a petition yesterday, addressing it to the acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu; and the Director-General of DSS, Yusuf Bichi; and asking both agencies to interrogate and possibly prosecute leaders of the opposition PDP over what it described as their illegal access to the server of the INEC

Further speaking in an interview, he said that there was no way the court would rely on the figure to remove President Buhari from office, adding that the Electoral Act (2010) as amended did not support electronic transfer of election results.

Recall that Atiku and the PDP, who are petitioners at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal had claimed that it was wrong to claim that Buhari won the February 23, 2019 Presidential election as declared by INEC.

INEC had on February 27, 2019 declared that President Buhari won the election with 15,191, 847 votes to defeat Atiku who polled 11, 262, 978 votes.

But Atiku and the PDP in their 139-page petition to challenge Buhari’s victory claim that “from the data in the 1st respondent’s (INEC’s) server…the true, actual and correct results from state to state computation” showed that Atiku polled a total of 18,356,732 votes to defeat Buhari whom they said scored 16, 741, 430 votes.

Keyamo said both Atiku and the PDP did not know that transmission of votes by electronic means was not allowed by law.

He said, “The law or the Electoral Act does not allow you to bring (transmit) results by server. No room for electronic transmission at all. All results were collated and transmitted manually.

“So, they cannot use that forgery to remove the President or sack him.

“In their forgery, all they put together was the PDP and the APC. What happened to other political parties and their candidates? They scored zero?

“In the first place, they will have to explain to Nigerians and the security agencies how they got access to the fake result sheet they are brandishing up and down.”

Asked if the President had filled his defense to the claim by Atiku and the PDP before the tribunal, Keyamo declined to give a categorical answer but said the party and its candidate were still within the time stipulated by law to respond.