‘Anything can happen when you’re uploading:’ INEC’s witness explains contradiction of results on IREV

 

 

 

By Ibrahim Ishaku

 

A witness for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Dr Lawrence Bayode, has explained why some of the figures in the results on IReV were inconsistent with their supposed hardcopy replica and why blurred results were uploaded on the site.

 

The witness, a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, while responding to a barrage of questions by Peter Obi and Labour Party (LP) lawyer, Patrick Ikwueto, said the blurred results on IReV was because Anything can happen when you’re uploading.

 

Bayode, an information technology practitioner, was the only witness called by INEC before closing its case.

 

An extract of the cross-examination of Bayode is reproduced here

 

Ikwueto: You are a senior pastor in your church

 

Witness: Yes

 

Ikwueto: It shows the risk level

 

Witness: It is resolved

 

Ikwueto: But it shows it was high risk

 

Witness: It was resolved

 

Ikwueto: So the e-transmission was not vulnerable

 

Witness: Yes, it was resolved

 

Ikwueto: Your test was done on a pre-production server

 

Witness: No it was on the UAT server

 

Ikwueto: Open page 23 of the report

 

Witness: Which report

 

Ikwueto: The report you can see

 

Witness: Hold on

 

Ikwueto: Pastor, you are taking all the time in the World

 

Witness: I’m referred to as Doctor

 

Ikwueto: I’m also a man of God

 

Witness: I can’t find it

 

Ikwueto: So you cannot see the page

 

Witness: No I can’t

 

Ikwueto: You still cannot see it

 

Witness: Oh, I can see it now

 

Ikwueto: On this paragraph 7.3.3 on pre-production

 

Witness: It was not this one

 

Ikwueto: This is a server testing

 

Witness: It was not this one

 

Ikwueto: You tested the server right

 

Witness: Yes but

 

 

Ikwueto: Your app on e-transmission was tested before it was used

 

Witness: Yes

 

Ikwueto: The testing was done between 3rd and 6th Feb 2023

 

Witness: No

 

Ikwueto laughing: So when was it?

 

Witness: It was 4th Feb

 

Ikwueto: The report was received on 22nd Feb 2023 by INEC

 

Witness: Yes

 

Ikwueto: This is the report and you produced it on subpoena

 

Witness: Yes

 

Ikwueto: Okay no problem, my lord, I want to tender the document in evidence

 

Justice Tsammani: Okay

 

Ikwueto: Does this document show the findings

 

Witness: It says findings

 

Ikwueto: So it shows findings resolved

 

Witness: Yes

 

Ikwueto: I put it to you Doctor that an AWS cloud trail log would have these features: event time, event source, event name, AWS Region, source IP address do you agree

 

Witness: It is listed

 

Ikwueto: Do you agree

 

Witness: It is listed

 

Justice Tsammani: Is that a yes

 

Witness: Yes

 

 

Ikwueto: The snapped copy of EC8A on IREV and the hard copy EC8A can never be different

 

Witness: Anything can happen when you’re uploading

 

Ikwueto: So it would change

 

Witness: It won’t change

 

Ikwueto: Show him this PCA23 exhibit. Pastor next week I will be in your church on Sunday

 

 

INEC: That is unfair, you’re intimidating him

 

 

Ikwueto: Is it bad that I want to come to church

 

Ikwueto: Look at the document please. What are the scores

 

Witness: I can’t see it, it’s blurred

 

Ikwueto: So what are the scores

 

Witness: I can’t see it, but it looks different

 

Ikwueto: You are aware that INEC materials are archived

 

Witness: Which one

 

Ikwueto: Your materials, press statement and all

 

Witness: Not all

 

Ikwueto: Oh not all. Okay