Following the viral video of how the 2019 presidential election was rigged, Festus Keyamo (SAN) said the videos being circulated on the social media professing how the February 23rd presidential election was rigged are of no used when weighed against the provisions of the Electoral Act and INEC’s guidelines.
Recalling, INEC had declared the All Progressive Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari as winner against his opponent, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party. However, Atiku claimed to have won the election as shown by his possessed INEC server.
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In response to this Keyamo, the Director, Strategic Communications of President Buharis’s 2019 presidential election, took to his twitter handle warning the Peoples Democratic Party of their false allegation that cannot stand against the Electoral Act.
Keyamo tweeted:
1. Without referring to any particular pending Election Petition, there’s a need to generally guide Nigerians not to gullibly fall for the fantasy created by any video circulating where INEC official(s) spoke of INEC’s plan to electronically transmit results before the elections
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) April 25, 2019
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2. The video(s) of some INEC official(s) expressing intention to electronically transmit results are only circulated for entertainment. That procedure is neither contained in the Electoral Act nor in INEC’s Guidelines. Courts are only guided by these documents and not such videos
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) April 25, 2019
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3. Also, what you plan to do may be different from what you ACTUALLY DID. Assuming INEC planned to transmit electronically, the moment it said after the election that it did not do so, the matter ends there especially as the Electoral Act & the Guidelines do not allow it to do so
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) April 25, 2019
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4. In anticipation of the electronic transmission, some crooks concocted fictitious results and perhaps in connivance with certain INEC insiders (or by hacking) tried to upload those results into the server. The fact that electronic transmission didn’t happen destroyed their plan
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) April 25, 2019
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5. The irony is that the real cheats are the ones struggling to create a narrative that they were cheated; the real crooks are the ones struggling to convince everyone that the system is crooked; those who actually planned to steal the people’s mandate are the ones crying foul
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) April 25, 2019
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The noise about electronic transmission of INEC results is akin to a student who wants to cheat in an exam & enters the hall with prepared answers, not noticing that the set questions are not exactly framed as expected. So, when he’s later told he failed, he says it’s IMPOSSIBLE!
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) April 25, 2019
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