Just when it seemed it had sunk finally, the INEC’s server controversy trailing the 2019 presidential election bobbed up again yesterday with the major contender, Atiku Abubakar, insisting the Presidential Election Tribunal did not reject his request to inspect the electronic data facility. Atiku therefore warned that the “celebration by the administration of General Buhari that their electoral heist has been covered is premature. This came as a joint forum of 60 presidential candidates and national chairmen in the election dismissed as untrue claims that results were transmitted to an existing INEC’s server. But the PDP in a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, accused INEC of colluding with APC to distort existing facts about the server. The tribunal chairman, Justice Mohammed Garba, reserved ruling on whether the court would allow the name of the party to be removed or not.

Source: The Guardian June 26, 2019 04:30 UTC