The President-Elect, Bola Tinbub is seeking the court appeal to access sensitive materials used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the February 25 presidential election.
Mr. Akintola Makinde seek court to obtain electoral material to be scan and make photocopies to enable him to prepare his defence against petitions that seek to nullify Tinbub’s election, Akintola stated this on Tuesday at the sitting in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
INEC had asked the Presidential Election Petition Court to vary the orders which were earlier granted to the candidates of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party (LP)’s Peter Obi to inspect materials used for last presidential election.
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At the day’s sitting, 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.
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 for 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.
According to Makinde, “The materials will be relevant in helping us to prepare our defense and also make comparison with the information contained in INEC’s back-end server.”
The appellate court sitting as the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal will on Wednesday rule on Tinubu’s application
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