“INEC, suspecting cyberattack, withheld the uploading of the results in order to preserve the integrity of the data,” the minister was quoted as saying by the government-owned News Agency of Nigeria.
to that of the electoral commission, INEC, on the upload of presidential election results from polling units, Mr Mohammed doubled down on his statement but blamed the media for its interpretation.
The statement was, however, contradictory to what INEC told Nigerians a day after the election. In a statement by its spokesperson, Festus Okoye, INEC said the delay in uploading the presidential results was due to “technical hitches” and not because of sabotage. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Mr Mohammed described the reports as “irresponsible and reckless.”
“These are people who cannot just believe that the Labour Party or the opposition did not win the election.“As a result of this there is nothing you want to say or do, they will find a way to twist it and make it what they want it to look like,” he said. “INEC immediately set up a technical team to look into what went wrong and simultaneously floated another platform,” he said.
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