Contrary to the claims made by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its last presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmoud Yakubu has said that no result from the last election was electronically transmitted.
Atiku and the PDP, had earlier challenged the outcome of the last presidential election before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT).
They claimed to have won the election by virtue of some results they got from a certain server, into which they said INEC transmitted the results of the election.
At the hearing of the PEPT on Tuesday morning, lawyer to President Muhammadu Buhari, Alex Izinyon (SAN), played a video, where INEC Chairman said his commission could not transmit results electronically, because of inadequate communication facilities/coverage in the country and the challenge of cybersecurity.
Izinyon further tendered a digital video disc (DVD) which was admitted as Exhibit: P85, while the certificate of compliance, tendered with it, was admitted as Exhbit: P86.
The DVD contained the interview Yakubu granted to a private television station, in which he gave details of the challenges of transmitting results electronically.
