The Supreme Court on Tuesday fixed August 20 for ruling in an application filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar challenging the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal’s judgment which rejected their request to access the ‘central server’ of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The PDP and Abubakar had alleged that the server housed the results of the election which were electronically transmitted by the electoral umpire during the February 23 presidential polls.

The tribunal had in a ruling on June 24 dismissed the claims by the PDP and Abubakar that INEC electronically transmitted the results of the poll to the said central server after the electoral body denied the allegations.

INEC had insisted that it never transmitted the results of the polls to any server whatsoever as the results were collated and declared manually.

President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) whose victory at the polls is being challenged by the petitioners also opposed the petitioners’ request to access the said INEC server.