About 72 hours after public criticisms greeted the shutdown of the Africa Independent TelevIsion, AIT online presidential poll in which the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari was leading with a wide margin, the management of DAAR communications plc, says it took the decision because the integrity of the poll had been compromised.
“General mohammed buhari had taken a massive lead in the online poll being conducted by Africa Independent Televisions’ website where he led president goodluck jonathan by 77 percent to 21 percent prompting the technical team of the poll to conduct an integrity test on the results at midnight.
“Suspicions that the poll was compromised where first muted when it emerged the number of unique IP addresses was significantly less than the number of votes polled. This suggested that some pollers were able to vote multiple times.
It said that a forensic test of the votes polled after the website was shut down further revealed that 30 identified unique IP-addresses had voted a total of 4969 times in favour of general mohammed buhari.
“Furthermore a software application that incrementally changes the IP-addresses was discovered to be used in the voting process in favour of General Muhammed Buhari and the APC political party.
It said that the company is presently seeking legal advice amid privacy concerns about releasing the raw CSV files on its www.aitonline.tv website for interested Nigerians to independently verify the integrity of the online poll.
“The management of DAAR Communications Plc determined this afternoon to make this information publicly available to protect its integrity amid accusations of bias promoted in some websites as well as on social media.
The management further stated that AIT remains committed to providing transparent bipartisan coverage of local and international news within the confines of best practice.
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