The Federal Government has disclosed why the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) delayed the uploading of presidential election results to its portal.
Speaking with some international media organisations in Washington DC on Monday, Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, said INEC withheld the uploading of results because of suspected cyber-attacks during the presidential poll.
The minister, who spoke with the Washington Post, Voice of America,
Associated Press and Foreign Policy magazine, said, 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.
Mohammed said the allegation of fraud being bandied by the opposition is a result of ignorance of how the process works.
He said the electoral body ‘withheld’ the upload ‘to preserve the integrity of the data’.
