2019 polls: Tribunal orders INEC to allow Atiku, PDP to inspect election materials vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
The tribunal, in a unanimous decision by a three-man panel of Justice led by Justice Abdul Aboki, directed the electoral body to grant the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, access to the materials.
Justice Aboki noted that the said ruling was vacated on the basis that “extensive orders” that were made by the lower tribunal, were totally outside the ambit of section 151 of the Electoral Act. Consequently, the tribunal said it would only order INEC to grant the Applicants access to examine and obtain Certified True Copies of election materials used for the presidential election.Other members of the panel that concurred with the lead ruling were Justices Emmanuel Agim and Peter Ige.
They expressed determination to engage forensic experts to scritinze all materials that INEC deployed for the election. Among items he said his client wanted leave of the tribunal to be inspected by forensic experts, included over 80million ballot papers that were used for the election, which he said would be subjected to thumb print analysis.
The Applicant told the tribunal that reliefs they sought against INEC was for the purpose of filing and maintaining an election petition they intend to lodge against the outcome of the 2019 Presidential Election. “We are urging your Lordships to grant us this orders, so that if we are inspecting, we can make copies by way of scanning or photocopying.
A member of the panel, Justice Emmanuel Agim, noted that some of the requests by Atiku and the PDP, were “outside the precints of section 151 of the Electoral Act”. “My lords if they are not allowed to secure the evidence and testify, it will deprive us of the ability to identify those abnormalities when we find them.
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