By Frank Momoh
The Director of Communications, Buhari Campaign Council, Mr. Festus Keyamo SAN, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its Presidential candidate,
Alh. Atiku Abubakar of criminally hacking into the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s server to alter the presidential election result.
Keyamo, in a statement made available petitioned the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Director of State Security (DSS), said the only means by which they could have access to the INEC server is by the criminally hacking into the server or through the criminal conspiracy of some INEC officials.
He said: “Despite the shortness of time before the Presidential/National Assembly Elections, and the lack of time to first simulate the process to ensure its effectiveness in a country like ours with problems of effective networks in many rural areas and constant failure of technological devices, together with its violation of the time frame of such laws as provided for in regional and continental Protocols in terms of the length of time required for the passage of such laws before any major election, the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party was hell-bent that the President should sign the Bill into law.
“Upon the last-minute postponement of the February 16, Presidential/National Assembly Elections, the nation was shocked to see already prepared presidential elections results floating around in the cyber space just less than 24 hours after the postponed election was originally billed to hold! The fake results had details of the scores of the candidates of the major parties.
“The only conclusion one can draw from the above, according to Keyamo, is that the PDP had prepared those results which were to be smuggled into the INEC Server. However, the sudden postponement of the election scuttled that evil plan, but it was too late to restrain the release of the fake results.”
The statement further said that despite the approval of the elections as credible by some local and international observers the PDP cried foul and made a shocking claiming that from purported results it obtained from INEC’s server, it has so-called proof that its candidate won the election by about 1.6 million votes.
Shockingly and coincidentally, the Spokesperson, said this margin was about the same margin by which it also purportedly “won” by the fake results released just hours after the postponement of the February 16, 2019 Presidential/National Assembly Elections.
The PDP Presidential Candidate, Keyamo insisted went ahead to file an election petition against the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari and have repeated the same outlandish claim of having access to INEC’s server which shows that they have some purported results at their disposal giving “victory” to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
According to him, INEC’s server is the back end of electronic records of INEC. Although, the purported results have been conclusively shown by public engagements to be false and even ridiculous, especially as the total number of accredited voters is exactly equivalent to the purported votes of the APC and PDP candidates, this criminal claim of the PDP has revealed a few things:
He said: “It is now clear that some criminally-minded PDP operatives have access to the INEC server to be able to smuggle in fake results into that server.”
He urged the Police and DSS to investigate the hacking into INEC server by the PDP, adding that the leadership of the PDP must be investigated and those identified as perpetrators must be arrested and prosecuted.
Keyamo, said: “Opposition is healthy in a democracy but it is not a license for criminality and illegality. A country governed by laws cannot be blackmailed or cowed into indolence by the perceived underdog status of the opposition so as to condone such a blatant criminal claim by the PDP of having illegal access to INEC’s server.”