The president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has filed a suit seeking an order by the Court of Appeal to get access and inspect sensitive materials used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the February 25 presidential election.
His counsel, Akintola Makinde on Tuesday, March 7, said he would need to inspect, scan and make photocopies of some of the electoral materials to enable him to prepare his defence against petitions that seek to nullify Tinubu’s election.
INEC had asked the Presidential Election Petition Court to evaluate the orders which were earlier granted to the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party (LP)’s Peter Obi to inspect materials used for last presidential election.
At the day’s sitting in Abuja, counsel for the LP, Onyechi Ikpeazu, said his team needs a physical inspection of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) to enable them carry out a forensic inspection. They also asked that the evidences are preserved before the BVAS are configured by INEC.
Counsel for INEC, Tanimu Inuwa, however, asked the court to dismiss the application, on the ground that it will cause serious delay in the governorship election coming up on March 11.
He added that there are 176,000 polling units across the country and each have its own unique BVAS machine which needs to be configured and it will be very difficult for them to configure such within a short period of time but assured that no data will be lost, as they have transferred the data to their backend server.
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