Atiku has uncovered how INEC deployed a tool to change ends in Tinubu’s favour.
NewsOnline studies that the Peoples Democratic Get together, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has accused the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC, of putting in a third-party gadget to intercept and change outcomes of the February 25 presidential election in favour of his counterpart, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Atiku alleged that INEC had, previous to the election, redeployed its in-house ICT skilled, Mr. Chidi Nwafor, and changed him with an IT marketing consultant that helped it to put in the third-party mechanism.
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The previous vice chairman stated IT marketing consultant, Suleiman Farouk, ensured that the gadget intermediated between the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and the IRev Portal, often known as System Administration System (DMS).
He made the declare in a 66-paged petition he lodged earlier than the Presidential Election Petition Court docket, PEPC, sitting on the Court docket of Attraction in Abuja.
The PDP candidate instructed the courtroom that the DMS was the software program that allowed INEC’s IT safety marketing consultant, Farouk, to remotely management, monitor and filter information that was transmitted from the BVAS gadgets to the digital collation system and the IRev platform.
“The first respondent (INEC) engaged an appointee of the 2nd respondent to man and oversee the delicate ICT Division of the first respondent for the aim of the election.
“The petitioners contend and shall lead proof to indicate, that opposite to the unique design of the BVAS machine to add information on to the digital collation system and the IReV portal, the first respondent contrived and put in an intervening third-party gadget (System Administration System) which, in its odd utilization, is supposed to safe and administer the first respondent’s technological ecosystem for the elections however, because it pertains to the presidential election, was used to intercept the outcomes, quarantine and warehouse similar, and filter them earlier than releasing similar to the IReV Portal.
“The first respondent used the stated System Administration System to govern the election ends in favour of the 2nd and third respondents.
“The petitioners state, and shall lead skilled proof to indicate, the vital elements of the first respondent’s Info and Communications Know-how (ICT), together with however not restricted to the BVAS, which is an android gadget manufactured by Emperor Applied sciences China and provided to the first Respondent by Activate Nigeria Restricted.
“The Voter Accreditation System (VAS) which is the software program that’s used on the BVAS was beforehand designed and configured in-house and put in on the BVAS by the ICT Workforce of the first respondent headed by Mr Chidi Nwafor.
“The VAS was subsequently handed over to Emperor Know-how China previous to the presidential election they usually then preconfigured and put in the software program on the BVAS earlier than supplying the gadgets to the first respondent by way of Activate Nigeria Restricted.
“Because it pertains to the IReV, the INEC Outcome Viewing Portal (IReV) is a web-based information entry and aggregation portal designed additionally by Chidi Nwafor’s workforce and is hosted on Amazon Internet Service (AWS).
“The server system for the gadget and the portal are hosted on Amazon Internet Service (AWS) URL:dashboard.ivasportal.com/sprint”, he added.
Within the petition Atiku filed alongside his social gathering, PDP, he maintained that INEC, having set the parameters of the ballot, “didn’t guarantee compliance with the digital transmission of accreditation information and ends in the Election to create alternative for manipulation of figures to the benefit of the 2nd and third Respondents”.
The petitioners alleged that there have been no technical glitches that prevented the add and transmission of the polling models outcomes and the accreditation information of the presidential election to the digital collation system and the IReV portal.
In line with Atiku and PDP, what occurred was “the non-adherence to the system by way of a command and management ingredient activated by a pre-programmed design to restrict user-privileges of the front-end customers of the BVAS machines on the polling models with respect to presidential election outcomes whereas releasing consumer privileges in respect of the Nationwide Meeting election home windows, by selectively withholding right passwords and/or issuing improper passwords by way of the usage of the System Administration System tools aforesaid.”
Arguing that there was no failure of the server as claimed by INEC, the petitioners stated they might adduce proof to indicate that the “server” being cloud-based, within the occasion of any unlikely problem, Amazon Internet Service would have seamlessly switched to a different server with out hitch, being autoscaling teams with a number of community reception and offline add choices.
“The Petitioners contend that the expertise system deployed by the first Respondent underwent High quality Assurance Assessments (“QAT”) earlier than acquisition and deployment.
“The first Respondent is hereby given the discover to supply the QAT Report that was ready by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in addition to the Report of Vulnerability Evaluation & Penetration Testing (VAPT) by Marketing consultant Suleiman Farouk of Sulfman Consulting Restricted and all different subsequent and associated studies on the system.
“The Petitioners contend that the so-called “glitch” was a bypass to tilt and change the outcomes of the Presidential Election in favour of the 2nd and third Respondents”, they added.
