Connect with us
Advertisement

Gist

Nigerians React As INEC Denies Having Server

Published

on

3 Days To 2023 Governorship Election, INEC Sends Warning To Political Parties, Supporters
Advertisement

A storm of mixed reactions by Nigerians has greeted claims by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nigeria’s electoral umpire, that it does not have a server where results of the February 23 presidential election were uploaded.

Naija News recalls that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Nigeria’s main opposition party and its presidential candidate in the February 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar, prayed the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Thursday, to order INEC to grant them permission to inspect the commission’s saver.

However, in response, Yunus Ustaz Usman (SAN), the Counsel to INEC, urged the Presidential Elections Petitions Tribunal to strike out the application of the PDP and Atiku, adding that: “They are asking us to bring something we don’t have.”

Advertisement

In the same vein, Wole Olanipekun (SAN), the counsel to President Muhammadu Buhari and that of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria’s ruling party, Lateef Fagnemi (SAN), asked the court to dismiss the application for failing to disclose the existence of the server.

Moments after the news broke, Nigerians took to the micro-blogging site, Twitter to react to INEC’s claims.

Naija News captured some of the reactions below…

https://twitter.com/MgbeojiIkechi/status/1139410274375491584

Advertisement

https://twitter.com/Seunsoul1/status/1139340201875185665

Advertisement
Advertisement