Gbenga Sesan who was appointed Nigeria’s first Information Technology Youth Ambassador in October 2001 has accused Africa Independent Television (AIT), of an attempt to smear the image of the presidential candidate f the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari.
Few days ago AIT 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.
Hours after the poll commenced, General Buhari was beating President Jonathan resoundingly, then the site was just pulled down. Many accused AIT of deliberately shutting down the polls because Buhari was leading the president.
AIT in a statement released yesterday claimed its site crashed because of high traffic to the site due to multiple voting by Buhari supporters who were voting through Internet protocol (IP) addresses.
It attached CSV files as evidence.
However, Seasan an internet expert has scrutinized the CSV and he says they are false and exaggerated by AIT.
Read his tweets below
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”