On Tuesday, the Supreme Court adjourned the hearing until 20 August in an application by the People’s Democratic Party and its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, challenging the refusal by the Presidential Election Petitions
Tribunal of their request for access to the ‘ central server ‘ of the Independent National Electoral Commission.
NAN reports that the PDP and Abubakar claimed the “server” had stored the results of the poll that the Independent National Electoral Commission had transmitted electronically during the exercise.
NAN reports that on June 24 the court rejected PDP and Atiku’s claims that INEC transmitted the results of the February 23 poll to that central server electronically.
INEC denied the claim, stating that the results of the polls were never transmitted to any server at all, but that the results were manually collated and declared.
President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressive Congress, whose victory at the elections is questioned by the tribunal’s petitioners, also opposed the petitioners ‘ application to access the INEC’s server.
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