The Africa Independent Television (AIT), has been caught pants down in an attempt to smear the image of the presidential candidate f the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, which has become a stock in trade for many individuals, groups and organisations sympathetic to the cause of President Goodluck Jonathan.
The Television station had few days ago organised an online poll between the Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), President Goodluck Jonathan and that of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari on who Nigerians prefer as their president.
But just a day after the poll went online, AIT being the organiser pull down the poll after Buhari assumed an unprecedented lead over president Jonathan, claiming the site is undergoing maintenance.
Buhari’s lead in notwithstanding a documentary which has been aired constantly on the television platform with the clear intent of tarnishing the image of the former Head of State.
The decision of the TV station to pull down the poll did not go down well with most Nigerians who criticised AIT for its bias on Buhari. Scores of people lambasted the station for deliberately playing out the script of the presidency and the PDP.
But in order to justify her decision to pull down the poll website where Buhari was clearly in the lead, AIT released a press statement claiming the poll was hacked by supporters of Buhari with the use of a software to vote several times in favour of Buhari.
In the statement widely circulated to media houses, AIT claimed an integrity test conducted on the result of the poll showed that 30 unidentified unique IP addresses voted a total of 4969 in favour of Buhari, suggesting that the process was hacked and rigged.
Not satisfied with the claim by AIT however, ICT expert and Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN), Gbenga Sesan went to work and discovered that AIT did nit only lied in the press statement, but also deliberately manioulated the CSV file which contained the IP addresses where voters who participated in the polling are found.
According to Mr. Sesan, though the AIT tried to edit the CSV file so as to prove their point that the poll was hacked, they failed in putting the numbers together which ended up exposing them.
Incidentally, this is about the second time a similar but deliberate falsification from the Jonathan camp would be exposed.
In early 2014, a presidential aide sent a mail with an alias attempting to indict former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi who is now the emir of Kano as the sponsor of Boko Haram.
Sanusi at that time exposed the $20 billion said to be missing from the account of the Nigerian Nationa Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
See below Mr. Sesan’s finding as he revealed via his twitter handle.
@gbengasesan
'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
1. Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are number labels assigned to devices within a network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication
'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
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
'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
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
'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
4. Long numbers can be confusing. So, IP addresses use dotted-decimal format: 4 numbers separated by periods. Something like 192.168.123.132
'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
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
'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
15. I now have a copy of the CSV file sent by AIT to media houses. This copy was obtained from a pro-GEJ news website http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/exclusive-how-pro-buhari-online-users-compromised-ait-polls/ …
'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
19. Ladies and gentlemen, look at the IP addresses again. What did you notice? Exactly. 82.145.210.258 to 82.145.210.293. 258 and 293? AIT?!
'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
20. The folly went all the way to 82.145.210.570. First, 82.anything isn’t geographically in Nigeria. It’s in Europe. AIT says NIG. Error 1
'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
21. The biggest error is that anything above 255 is not a valid dotted-decimal number. Remember, highest binary is 11111111. That’s 255.
'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
22. Ladies and gentlemen, AIT messed up! Big time. If you would fabricate lies, don’t be lazy like the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
23. AIT fabricated IP addresses that don’t exist to prove that APC rigged their poll. Shame on you, AIT. I dare you to disprove these tweets
'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
24. I’ll say this again. This is 2015. Not 1999. If you’re going to lie, be smart about it. Otherwise, we’ll factcheck and expose your lies!
'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
In conclusion, @AIT_Online, you owe @ThisIsBuhari and @APCNigeria apologies. The management of Daar Communications PLC lied. Apologise NOW!
'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
AIT reminds me of the cheat who was given “expo”. He dubbed all answers, and also dubbed the instruction, “don’t dub beyond this point” :
'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
The cheats needed to show a lot of rows with Buhari and similar IPs. When “engineer” got to 255, (s)he forgot “don’t dub beyond this point”
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