The minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) withheld uploading of results to its portal due to suspected cyber atta@cks during the 2023 presidential poll.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the minister said this during a chat with with some international media organisations in Washington DC, USA on Monday, April 3.
According to the report, Mohammed said the allegation of fr@ud being bandied by the opposition is a result of ignorance of how the process works.
“Under our laws today, management of election results is manual and the court has ruled that INEC has the exclusive right to determine the mode of election, its collation and transmission.
What happened on the 25th of February was that INEC observed that the results of the presidential elections were not being viewed. INEC, suspecting a cyber att@ck, withheld the uploading of the results to preserve the integrity of the data.
It immediately proceeded to float an alternative platform while asking its technicians to investigate what happened to its original portal,” he said.
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