The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal Monday rejected the request by Abubakar Atiku, the People’s Democratic presidential candidate, and his party to have access to the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission. The tribunal dismissed an application filed by Abubakar and the PDP to inspect the INEC server allegedly used in collating the Feb. 23 general election. The petitioners insisted that results from the presidential election were transmitted to the central server maintained by INEC. The above descriptions are unique to the 15th respondent’s server,” Atiku and his party claimed. “We do not have a server,” INEC counsel, Yunus Usman (SAN), told the tribunal on June 13.

Source: The Guardian June 24, 2019 11:20 UTC