Ekene Enefe, a senior member of the All Progressives Congress, has disclosed that some political parties hired hackers from Russia and Israel to tamper with the results of the 2023 elections.
This was stated by Enefe on Friday while making a live appearance on Arise Television. Enefe is also in charge of contact mobilization in the APC Presidential Campaign Council.
He also pointed out that political parties that were unsuccessful in winning the president had chosen to use the electronic transmission of results as a justification for contesting the outcome, claiming they already knew they were losing.
He said, “Each party has a situation room, they’ve known the results. They knew they were losing and they wanted to cling on something; and what they want to cling on is the transmission of the results to the portal.
“But people do not know how many times the Independent National Electoral Commission server was hacked and attacked. And this was done by political parties that brought in Russian and Israeli hackers (I’m just giving you an intelligence report that I’m privileged to) to hack into INEC server and to transmit the end result and create chaos.
“None of them succeeded and that is why the election, to the best of my knowledge, was not transmitted on INEC server.”
Recall that on Monday, as the results of the presidential election were being tallied at the International Conference Centre in Abuja, representatives of the Peoples Democratic Party, the Labour Party, and some other political parties walked out of the National Collation Centre.
The displeased parties had stated that despite many promises from the election umpire, the results supplied by INEC had not been published to the commission’s Results Viewing Portal (IReV).
The election results that delivered Bola Tinubu, the APC candidate, as the winner have since been vowed to be contested in court by the parties and their presidential candidates.
