Amazon server hosts the INEC Results Viewing (IReV) portal which was deployed in the conduct of Nigeria's general disputed elections in 2023.
President Bola Tinubu has, through his legal team, told the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja that Amazon Web Services server is prone to glitches. But a cloud and web engineer from the firm disagreed.
The presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party , Atiku Abubakar, and the Labour Party’s Peter Obi, filed separate petitions to challenge the outcome of the poll. of manipulating the results of the 25 February election to secure victory for Mr Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress . The commission had tried to explain away the failure by blaming it on technical glitches suffered by the IReV portal as a result of network failure.
Mr Olanipekun, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria , went on to reference a glitch experienced by MTN Momo-PSB on its server last year. She told the court that her reports of the 33 regions where Amazon Web Services hosts their servers “are available public information.”The witness clarified that she was not at the court to testify as Amazon Web Services Incorporated official, but to “testify as an expert witness” regarding the technology that hosts INEC IReV.
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