Peter Obi's request to interrogate INEC's ICT officials met stiff opposition from the electoral body, President Tinubu and the APC...
, on Thursday, urged the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja to order the Independent National Electoral Commission to make its ICT officials available for interrogation by his team of lawyers and experts.
Mr Obi seeks to interrogate INEC’s ICT officials regarding the use of the Internet in the conduct of the 25 February presidential election.He is alleging manipulation of the electoral process by INEC in favour of Mr Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress .
In two requests, Mr Ikweto urged the court to order the electoral commission to supply him with the names and other details of its ICT professionals that deployed electronic devices for the conduct of the election.Mr Ikweto formulated 12 questions to be forwarded to INEC. According to Mr Obi’s legal team, if the court grants their request, it would enable them to ask relevant questions and elicit responses that would aid their suit.But, INEC’s lawywr, Kemi Pinheiro, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria , opposed Mr Obi’s applications to subject electoral officials to interrogation.He contended that Mr Obi’s requests ought to have come during the court’s pre-hearing session.
The court had held its pre-hearing sessions for two weeks when it streamedlined the procedures for the trial of the substantive petition.Mr Tinubu’s lawyer, Akin Olujimi and APC counterpart, Lateef Fagbemi, both SANs, aligned with INEC in opposing Mr Obi’s requests.After taking the lawyers arguments, the five-member panel of the court, led by Haruna Tsammani, reserved ruling on the requests.
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