The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar, “invented” results of the last presidential election to prove his case at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.
INCE in its response on Thursday at the tribunal in Abuja disowned Atiku’s purportedly figures and results sheet attributed to a website, factsdontlie.com and that the website website described as www.factsdontlieng.com was neither created nor owned by INEC saying: ‘The 1st Respondent does not share information with such an unclassified entity and any information purportedly derived therefrom which does not accord with the result as declared by the 1st Respondent is not authentic but rather was invented for the purpose of this case.”
INEC said the results were “invented” solely for the petition and that it “does not share information with such an unclassified entity and any information purportedly derived therefrom which does not accord with the result as declared by INEC is not authentic but rather was invented for the purpose” of the tribunal, according to excerpts of the filings
Also INEC said it did not transmit results via electronic channels, but used manual collation as stipulated by law. It, however, did not say whether it collated results from across the country and compiled them on an Internet-enabled computer.
INEC specifically denies the existence of electronic transmission of results and it is unknown to the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended)
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