By Jennifer Y Omiloli
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday blamed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of supplanting every one of the servers in its home office and its state workplaces to cover alleged rigging in the just concluded general elections.
The gathering owned the claim in an expression issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja, saying that the activity was in an edgy offered to change the real aftereffects of the presidential decision transmitted from the surveying focuses the country over.
Ologbondiyan said that the supposed substitution of the servers was totally unforgivable and had additionally uncovered the culpability of INEC in the supposed control and apparatus of the decision.
He said that the PDP was advised on how the INEC administration and authorities of the administration ended up jumpy and depended on the frantic measure, after they understood that the servers had data of its presidential competitor, Atiku Abubakar’s triumph at the race.
“Our party also has details of how the INEC leadership and the presidency agents procured and detailed computer experts to the commission’s offices to switch the servers, mutilate vital information in the system and attempt to erase all trails of transmitted results to the main server.
“Moreover, our party has been informed about how the INEC leadership, several weeks after the election, used some compromised officials of the commission to manipulate voter registers in some states by ticking names of individuals who did not participate in the Presidential election, as having voted.
“This is with the view to using such to cover the fictitious results it wrote for the All Progressives Congress (APC).”
Ologbondiyan said that criminological examination of the framework would uncover the genuine votes transmitted from the surveying focuses.
“The PDP therefore insists on forensic examination of all relevant documents and equipment used for the Presidential election.’’
Be that as it may, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, who responded to the charge depicted it as ridiculous and uncalled-for.
“The commission has maintained that it will not join issues with the PDP in the media on a petition that the party had already filed in court, in respect of the 2019 Presidential Election.
“Rather than issuing press statements and addressing press conferences on the same petition on a daily basis, PDP should allow the legal process to run its full course,” Oyekanmi said.
