How My Votes Were Slashed In 31 States By INEC – Atiku

BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the 2019 general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has said that data from the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has exposed how his votes were reduced in 31 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

In a petition he and his party, the PDP filed before the Presidential election tribunal, Atiku said he defeated Buhari clearly with 1,615,302 votes.

The PDP Presidential candidate said that data from INEC server has shown that he actually polled a total of 18,356,732 votes to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari, who polled 16,741,430 votes.

But the result announced by INEC from the 36 states and the FCT, President Buhari polled 15,191,847, while Atiku came second with 11,262,978 votes.

Atiku explained in the petition that smart card readers deployed by INEC in addition to accreditation transmitted electronically, showed the results of voting from polling units directly to INEC’s server, adding that the electoral body’s published numbers of registered voters before the election did not tally with the figure in its Form EC8D (A).

A breakdown of the 174-page document showed the electronic collation of results state by state as of February 25.

In Abia state, Atiku said in the petition that he recorded 664,659 votes in the electronic results from the server as against the 219,698 votes recorded by the commission.

In Adamawa, 646,080 votes, instead of 410,266; Akwa Ibom 587,431 votes, instead of 395,832; Anambra 823, 668 votes, instead of 524,738; Bayelsa 332, 618 votes, instead of 197, 933; Benue 529,970 votes, instead of 356, 817; Borno 281,897 votes, instead of 71, 788; Cross River 572, 220 votes, instead of 295, 737 recorded by the commission.

Atiku further said he polled 778,369 votes in Delta, as against the 594, 068 recorded by INEC; in Ebonyi 565, 762 instead of 258, 573; Edo 677,937, instead of 275,691; Enugu 698,119 instead of 355,553; FCT 419,724 against 259,997; Gombe 684,077 against 138,484; Imo 485,627 against 334,923; Jigawa 539,522 against 289,895; Kaduna 961,143 against 649,612; Kano 522,889 against 391,593; Katsina 160,203.

Others include Kebbi 493,341 against 154,282; Kogi 504,308 against 218,207; Kwara 353,173 against 138,184; Lagos 1,103,297 against 448,015; Nasarawa 344,421 against 283,847; Niger 576,308 against 218,052; Ogun 438,099 against 194,655; Ondo 451,779 against 275,901; Oyo 527,873 against 366,690; Sokoto 552,172 against 361,604; Taraba 442,380 against 374,743; Yobe 306,841 against 50,763 and Zamfara 379,022 against 125,123.

The petitioner also said that INEC inflated the scores of he polled in Osun and Plateau states, adding that based on data available in the server, he recorded 337,359 votes but INEC credited the party with 337,377 votes; just as in Plateau, where he polled 273,031 votes as against the 548,665 recorded by INEC in its final collation.