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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was replacing all the servers in its offices in all the states across the country and its national headquarters in Abuja.

The opposition party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, on Monday made the allegations in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja.

Ologbondiyan said the commission’s action was aimed at deleting the actual presidential election results transmitted from the polling centres across the country.

He said the action further exposed the culpability of INEC in the manipulation of the 2019 presidential election.

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Ologbondiyan said, “The PDP has been well briefed on how the INEC leadership and officials of the Buhari Presidency became jittery and resorted to the desperate measure, after they realised that the servers have information of Atiku Abubakar’s victory at the election.

“Our party also has details of how the INEC leadership and the Presidency agents procured and detailed computer experts to the commission’s offices to switch the servers, mutilate vital information in the system and attempt to erase all trails of transmitted results to the main server.

“Moreover, our party has been informed about how the INEC leadership, several weeks after the election, used some compromised officials of the commission to manipulate voter registers in some states by ticking names of individuals who did not participate in the presidential election, as having voted.

“This was with the view to using such to cover the fictitious results it wrote for the APC.”

The PDP spokesman said what INEC and the Buhari Presidency did not understand was that computer software and applications left traces, signatures as well as footmark.

He said a forensic investigation of the system would reveal the real votes transmitted from the polling centres, which he claimed, showed the PDP’s presidential candidate as the winner of the election.

But INEC’s Director of Publicity and Voter Education,  Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, however, denied the allegation in a chat with The PUNCH.

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