I Have Not Seen The INEC Server But… – Chidoka.

I Have Not Seen The INEC Server But… – Chidoka.

By Tai Emeka Obasi

“Have you seen the so-called server yourself?” asked Yunus Ustaz Usman, the INEC’s lead counsel at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal inside the Abuja Appeal Court.

The time was exactly 4.20 pm. The date was July 19, 2019, the final of the ten days allotted to the Petitioners, Atiku and the PDP to prove their case.

The moment was cross-examination of the last and final witness as evidence before the Petitioners wrapped up their case, or closed their case, in the more familiar legal term.

And the witness was a star witness, exactly the 62nd witness called by the Petitioners, though number one in the list of over 400 witnesses front loaded.

In what transpired via affirmation and adoption of his four depositions, accompanied by many documents already marked as exhibits and tendered earlier, this witness could have been described as ‘mega star’ witness if legal procedure permitted such title.

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His name was and remains, Chief Osita Chidoka, who left no one in doubt of his roots by walking into the witness box, clad in Isi Agu with a traditional cap to match.

His first baptism of fire inside the oven hot box was the APC lead counsel asking him to take a look at one of his depositions, from page 22-29, being his witness statement as part of the Petitioners’ response to the second Respondents’ reply. And then the cross-examiner ordered him to read a portion.

From the paragraph the star witness read, it was affirming that the first Petitioner, HE Atiku Abubakar was born of Nigerian parents in Jada, Adamawa in 1946.

“Thank you Sir, ” responded Usman. Then added, “when were you born?”

“I was born in 1971,” answered Chidoka.

“So biologically, you can’t know that Atiku was born in 1946, am I correct?”

“Biologically, you’re correct but I also know that Nigeria got her independence in 1960, even when I can’t biologically prove that fact also,” Chidoka responded and if it was permitted, he would have been applauded from reactions within the PDP cross section in court.

From here, Usman jumped into the INEC transmission.

“You were not there when the results were transmitted, were you?”

“I was not there but I’m aware it was transmitted.”

“You’re aware?”

“Yes because as a national collation agent and head of the PDP situation room, I had agents in all the wards of the federation and all their reports got to me. And I’m aware that the results were transmitted via the card readers to the INEC server, ” the star witness was swift and firm.

And now the INEC lead counsel asked the star witness if he had seen what he(Usman) described as so-called server.

“I have not seen it but I am aware there is one and the INEC chairman consistently said there was and that it would be used during the election,” Chidoka responded.

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Now, because of the hullabaloo that followed this response from the APC outlets, let me pause here and make some clarifications.

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Not many know what a server is ? Server is not like a car, an aeroplane, a house or such physical stuff.0

Wikipedia describes server thus, “Server is a computer program or a device that provides functionality for other programs or devices, called “clients”. This architecture is called the client–server model, and a single overall computation is distributed across multiple processes or devices.”

Making it simpler, server is like a website, where you can be given a code to send information to that website but only the owner has the access code to view it.

Bringing it further home, it is like a bank account where anybody can pay money into with the account name and number but only the owner, with his/her signature as access code, can know the balance or statement of that account.

Chidoka is neither the INEC chairman nor works for INEC in any capacity and hence won’t have the code to access INEC server. And without such access, he can’t see the server.

I would personally have been shocked if he said he had seen the server.

Coming next is Chidoka’s second part of his moments in the witness box.

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