Lai Mohammed, Minister of Communication and Culture, has justified the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) failure to instantly publish the results of the 2023 presidential election to its viewing webpage.
According to the Minister, INEC suspected a cyber assault and withheld the results from being instantly entered into the platform in order to preserve the data.
He went on to say that the commission then floated an alternate platform while requesting its technicians to look into what happened to its initial platform.
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Mohammed refuted that INEC refused to submit the results immediately to the platform in order to commit fraud with the data.
He also criticized the opposition parties for promoting claims of fraud against INEC due to their lack of understanding of how the process works.
According to news sources, the Minister made the clarification when interacting with international media outlets in Washington DC on Monday.
“Under our laws today, management of election results is manual and the court has ruled that INEC has the exclusive right to determine the mode of election, its collation and transmission,” he said.
“What happened on the 25th of February was that INEC observed that the results of the presidential elections were not being viewed. INEC, suspecting a cyber attack, withheld the uploading of the results to preserve the integrity of the data.
“It immediately proceeded to float an alternative platform while asking its technicians to investigate what happened to its original portal.”
Lai Mohammed went on to say that President Muhammadu Buhari delivered on his commitment to hold a credible election in 2023.
According to the minister, Buhari created a level playing field for the elections and banned security forces from being used to intimidate opponents.
“Proof of this resolution is that the president’s party lost the presidential election in Katsina, his home state. Equally, the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, lost in his state, Lagos, while the chairman of the party, Abdullahi Adamu, lost in Nasarawa state to the Labour Party,” Mohammed was quoted as saying.
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“The director-general of the campaign organization of our party also lost to PDP in Plateau state. Nothing gives this election more credence than those facts because there was no rigging in states where our bigwigs come from,” he added.
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