President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign spokesperson Festus Keyamo has maintained that the electronic transmission of results is not in the Electoral Act nor the guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar had insisted that it got more votes than the APC making reference to the “data obtained electronically from INEC’s server”.
Some party supporters have also taken to Twitter to dug up footage of INEC officials promising that results would be transmitted electronically.
“The video(s) of some INEC official(s) expressing an intention to electronically transmit results are only circulated for entertainment. That procedure is neither contained in the Electoral Act nor in INEC’s Guidelines. Courts are only guided by these documents and not such videos,” Keyamo said.
1. Without referring to any particular pending Election Petition, there’s a need to generally guide Nigerians not to gullibly fall for the fantasy created by any video circulating where INEC official(s) spoke of INEC’s plan to electronically transmit results before the elections
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) April 25, 2019
2. The video(s) of some INEC official(s) expressing intention to electronically transmit results are only circulated for entertainment. That procedure is neither contained in the Electoral Act nor in INEC’s Guidelines. Courts are only guided by these documents and not such videos
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) April 25, 2019
3. Also, what you plan to do may be different from what you ACTUALLY DID. Assuming INEC planned to transmit electronically, the moment it said after the election that it did not do so, the matter ends there especially as the Electoral Act & the Guidelines do not allow it to do so
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) April 25, 2019
4. In anticipation of the electronic transmission, some crooks concocted fictitious results and perhaps in connivance with certain INEC insiders (or by hacking) tried to upload those results into the server. The fact that electronic transmission didn’t happen destroyed their plan
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) April 25, 2019
5. The irony is that the real cheats are the ones struggling to create a narrative that they were cheated; the real crooks are the ones struggling to convince everyone that the system is crooked; those who actually planned to steal the people’s mandate are the ones crying foul
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) April 25, 2019