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2019: Group raises alarm over fresh plot to rig polls
By: sparrow Date: November 1, 2018, 2:28 pm
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ABUJA – A civil society group known as Concerned Nigerians has
raised the alarm over an alleged plot by some persons within the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to
electronically rig the 2019 general elections in favour of a
major political party.
Deji Adeyanju, the convener of the group, gave the warning on
Thursday at a news conference in Abuja.
He said a reliable source within INEC had informed the group
that the e-collation portal of the Commission was tampered in a
way that would no longer show the location, the time, and the
date results from each polling units were fed into the system.
According to him, the implication of such interference was that
anyone who had access to the e-collation platform could input
unverifiable figures into the system as genuine election results
from obscure locations without trace.
Adeyanju said: “Concerned Nigerians want to use this medium to
call the attention of Nigerians and the International Community
to fresh attempts by some individuals at the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) to electronically rig the
2019 General Elections.
“We have been reliable informed by our sources within INEC that
the E-Collation portal of the Commission has been tampered with
as it no longer shows location, time and date of collation of
results.
“The validity of results of the 2019 elections will be tied to
the credibility of the E-Collation portal especially the
imputing of results real-time from polling Units across the
country.
“Therefore, if the E-Collation will not reflect time, date and
location where results are entered from; it means the outcome of
the elections will not be credible. The implication of this is
that, anyone can enter results from any location, at anytime and
on any date.”
Another issue of concern he raised was the unrestricted access
to the e-collation portal 12 national commissioners of INEC
enjoyed.
He expressed worry that such level of access could pave way for
some unscrupulous characters amongst them to view the results
collation process from the portal’s backend, in real-time, and
possibly divulge same to their accomplices in various political
parties before the final results were announced.
“We are worried that if unlimited access is given to the 12
National Commissioners at to view E-Collation of results as
currently obtained, they will compromise the 2019 elections
since many of them are APC sympathizers. We want a process were
only the National Chairman will be able to view the E-Collation
of results on the INEC portal on Election Day to prevent
manipulation of the 2019 elections.
“We call on INEC to review the existing structure of its
election management team by redeploying Mr A.T Yusuf, the
current Director of Operation who continues to work with Amina
Zakari on strategies to manipulate the election outcome in 2019.
Both individuals are working closely with the Chief if Staff to
the President and other members of President Buhari’s cabinet
members,” Adeyanju said.
The group further called on INEC to restore the former
e-collation system and ensure all electronically collated
results on their portal reflect time of input, location and
date.
He noted that Nigerians were in need of qualitative leadership
at all levels, hence, the need for INEC to ensure that the 2019
electoral process was credible, free and fair.
“We equally call on the Nigerian people to be vigilant in the
days, weeks and months ahead,” he concluded.
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