INEC server: Atiku calls Microsoft, IBM, Oracle to testify
http://www.hrlnews.com/2019/04/inec-server-atiku-calls-microsoft-ibm.html
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku
Abubakar, is insistent that the Independent National Electoral
Commission stored election results in a server and has said he will
call Microsoft, IBM and Oracle experts to testify that he defeated
President Muhammadu Buhari by over 1.6 million votes.
Atiku gave the server name as INEC_PRES_RSLT_SRV2019 and its unique
Mac address as 94-57-A5-DC-64-B9 with Microsoft Product ID
00252-70000-0000-AA535, in his fresh response to the reply of INEC to
his petition.
The Punch reported that Atiku and the PDP will also be expected to
tender INEC’s training manual on elections, a printout of the votes of
candidates from smart card readers and a printout of the forensic audit
report on INEC’s server as evidence.
The former Vice-President and the PDP claimed to have polled a total
of 18,356,732 votes to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari and the All
Progressives Congress who he said scored 16,741,430 votes.
However, INEC’s Director, Information and Communications Technology,
Mr Chidi Nwafor, in his witness statement on oath attached to the reply,
specifically denied the “server results” which the PDP and Atiku
claimed.
He said all the results were collated manually and were never transmitted electronically.
Atiku, in his fresh response, said the figures he claimed to have scored were genuine.
The reply read in part, “The servers from which the said figures were
derived belong to the 1st respondent (INEC). The figures and votes were
transmitted to the 1st respondent’s Presidential result’s server 1 and
thereafter aggregated in INEC_PRES_RSLT_SRV2019 whose physical address
or unique Mac address as 94-57-A5-DC-64-B9 with Microsoft Product ID
00252-70000-0000-AA535. The descriptions are unique to the 1st
respondent’s server.”