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“Although the INEC has refuted this allegation to hack its server, the source maintained that 162 attempts were made to intrude the INEC server in the last 72 hours before they were frustrated by cyber experts in the commission.”
Mr. Dino Melaye
PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Reasons are gradually emerging why Dino Melaye attempted to force the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC to upload election results into its server even when the agency was of the opinion that that will not safeguard the integrity of the process.
A report by some sources indicated that Atiku had compromised some staff of the commission with millions of dollars to alter the results once uploaded.
The source said that credible intelligence available to it revealed an intense, last-minute lobby by Atiku Abubakar, the PDP candidate, to rig the results, having realized that results collated by PDP’s Situation Room at Wuse, Abuja from across 176, 606 polling units showed he had lost the elections by a very wide margin.
The report continued; using a team of influential national figures (including powerful retired Military Generals), Atiku spent the whole afternoon of Sunday (February 26) reaching out to officials in a number of critical states with high vote figures to alter the results with a view to shoring up his poor performance with offer of staggering millions of dollars per each officer willing to alter results for Atiku.
Having been tipped off about this nefarious bid of Atiku, INEC and some of the international observers (including a respected former president of an African country) who have already shared their concern with critical stakeholders and the establishment of the matter advised that the uploading is withheld until full collation of results from states were ready.
This should explain why Dino Melaye who is the PDP party agent at the National Collation Center, and who is the one that made the disbursement to those compromised staff of INEC is aggrieved, busy making noises and causing drama at the Collation Center in Abuja asking the INEC to upload those results which have already been altered.
In a related development, it has been reported that the INEC Server suffered 162 attacks to hack into it in the last 72 Hours.
Although the INEC has refuted this allegation to hack its server, the source maintained that 162 attempts were made to intrude the INEC server in the last 72 hours, before they were frustrated by cyber experts in the commission. The attempts were said to have been initiated from different parts of the world, Asia, Europe, America, and locally within Nigeria.
It will be recalled that the PDP and LP alongside other political parties raised an alarm regarding INEC’s refusal to upload the results to the site and insist collation of results should be discontinued until the results were uploaded. But in a swift reaction, the INEC chairman overruled the prayers and continued the exercise.
The source maintained that the INEC fears that the results might be tempered with by complicit officials was the reason it did not upload the results to protect the integrity of the electoral process thus saving the nation from chaos and violence.
It will be recalled as in the video below, certain unscrupulous Nigerians in the diaspora had sworn before the Labour party presidential aspirant, Peter Obi, to do everything possible to win the election, even if it meant hacking and rigging it. Watch:
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