The Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has made a shocking revelation regarding the handling of the presidential election results by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Lai Mohammed, made the revelation during his official engagements with international media organizations in Washington DC.
According to Mr. Mohammed, INEC suspected a cyberattack and therefore withheld the upload to preserve the integrity of the data. The controversy surrounding the upload of election results has been one of the bases upon which two opposition candidates are challenging the results of the election, which was won by Bola Tinubu of the ruling party, APC.
Speaking on the upload of election results, Mr. Mohammed said, “It is unfortunate that this is what the opposition are relying on to say the elections were rigged. So far, none of the political parties has come out to say that what is on Form EC8A is different from what was uploaded on IREV.”
The minister explained that under Nigerian laws, the 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.
