Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state says PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and his party must explain how they got access to INEC’s servers.
“Well, I don’t about INEC server; it must be Atiku’s server,” El-Rufai told State House correspondents after a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday.
“We don’t know how they had access to it; they will tell us during the tribunal proceedings, what is this server and how they got access to it and how they got their numbers.
“You do not go to court in an election petition by quoting INEC server or any other server. Anyone can create a server, I can go and buy it and call it INEC server.
“But that does not mean that it amounts to anything. We are guided by the electoral act and the evidence act and other enabling legislation and he has to prove his case.
“But anyone can make claims – we live in the age of fake news and fake claims. Anyone can make claims but you have to prove it,’’ he said.
Atiku didn’t win Kaduna
El-Rufa’i also told correspondents that the PDP presidential candidate lost the election in Kaduna state, adding that, “he will always lose Kaduna, he will lose Kaduna 10 more times because he has never won Kaduna in any presidential elections’’.
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“Let me say this without any fear of contradiction; since President Buhari started contesting for the presidency since 2003, he has never lost Kaduna.
“So, PDP has never won elections in Kaduna from 2003, even with a sitting governor in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015; it has never happened.
“I don’t know what will happen that Atiku will win Kaduna in these elections this time.
“He lost Kaduna; he lost very badly, even though about 100,000 votes he claimed to have got were added because elections conducted without card reader in some parts of the state.
“That’s how he even got up to the 400,000 that he got,” he explained.
