DAAR Communications Plc. stated that the polls were doctored by hackers connected to the APC, and discredited the survey, which was taken down from the site abruptly.
"General Mohammed Buhari had taken a massive lead in the online poll being conducted by Africa Independent Television's website where he led President Goodluck Jonathan by 77% to 21% prompting the technical team of the AIT poll to conduct an integrity test on the results at midnight," the statement read. DAAR Communications and AIT, who have been accused of being biased toward President Jonathan, further claimed that the team's suspicions were confirmed by a test of votes polled after the poll's shutdown. "Suspicions that the poll was compromised where [sic] first muted when it emerged the number of unique IP addresses was significantly less than the number of votes polled," DAAR Communications said. "This suggested that some pollers were able to vote multiple times," the company furthered.To corroborate the claims, AIT released an accompanying spreadsheet file, which supposedly showed the doctored votes.
However, Executive Director of Nigeria's Paradigm Initiative and consultant Gbenga Sesan, who tweets using the handle @GbengaSesan, conducted an investigation of the accompanying file, finding instead that AIT forged the documents, allegedly crafting fake IP addresses to support their claims. Sesan, an ardent Buhari supporter, outlined the details on his Twitter page Thursday.
"What AIT won’t tell you about the CSV file shared with other media houses, along with their statement, is that it’s easy to edit columns," Sesan tweeted. "I challenge AIT to release the CSV file with all erring IP addresses, and let’s trace those IPs to see where they lead."
Read the tweets below.
You conduct a poll. You are too dumb to embed IP checks. Your candidate is whipped silly. You pull the poll. You release a stupid statement.I challenge AIT to release the CSV file with all erring IP addresses, and let’s trace those IPs to see where they lead. Wendell people :D
What AIT won’t tell you about the CSV file shared with other media houses, along with their statement, is that it’s easy to edit columns :)
.@AIT_Online, I challenge you to release raw CSV file to back up claim. Why integrity test after massive lead by GMB?
Dear @AIT_Online, before you release an edited CSV file, kindly note that it’s easy to confirm manipulation. You might want to ask Wendell.
When Reno Omokri (aka Wendell Simlin) got caught, some people repented. Let’s just say AIT has been caught pants down. Tweets in a bit :D
AIT claims that their website was hacked by APC supporters who rigged votes for Buhari from similar IP addresses. Here’s why they’re stupid!
In the next few tweets, I’ll explain how Internet Protocol (IP) addresses work and prove that AIT is guilty of FORGERY. Please be patient…
You don’t have patience for numbers? Please read number tweet #1 and #2 to get the idea, then skip all the way to tweet #14 for the juice
2. Internet Protocol designers used 32-bit number. IP protocol version 4 (IPv4) is limited because it’s only from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255
3. That basically means IP version 4 only has 4,294,967,295 IP addresses. That explains why IP version 6 (128-bit numbers) is now being used
4. Long numbers can be confusing. So, IP addresses use dotted-decimal format: 4 numbers separated by periods. Something like 192.168.123.132
5. If geeks don’t want to be nice, they’d leave easy IP address 192.168.123.132 as 32 bit number. That’d be 11000000101010000111101110000100
6. To make 11000000101010000111101110000100 easy, split into octets - sequence of 8 bits. That would be 11000000.10101000.01111011.10000100
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