The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) have accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of impeding their ability to check documents for the February 25 presidential elections.
The PDP and LP stated on Friday that INEC is not complying with a court judgment for INEC to provide access to inspect the files.
A letter signed by the PDP legal team, Joe-Kyari Gadzama (SAN) claimed that the INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu since the court of appeal on March 3 and 8 granted access to materials used for the election has refused to comply.
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The appellate court panel led by Justice Joseph Ikyegh had issued “an order allowing the PDP to carry out a forensic examination/analysis of the ballot papers, data form, BVAS/and or card readers, including copying and photocopying of the ballot papers, information stored in the computer server/IREV/backends/clouds and card readers and thumbprint analysis and to present and/or demonstrate by visual, electronic or documentary or any other means, the result of the forensic examination/analysis at the court as part of the proceedings.”
According to Gadzama, a legal team led by Adedamola Fanokun Esq has been visiting INEC since the initial order was made, and on each time, they were turned back because “there was no directive yet from the commission”.
In a tweet, LP national chairman Julius Abute accused INEC of denying the party’s experts and lawyers access to election materials, including the ability to scan or make photocopies of voter registration and ballot papers used, as well as conduct digital forensic inspections of BVAS machines used in the February 25 election.
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He said, “I want to say that since that order was made that we should be given the opportunity to inspect election materials, INEC has not allowed us access.
“We have been going there; our lawyers and technical experts have been going there daily.”
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