The court of appeal has refused to restrain the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) from reconfiguring the bimodal voter
accreditation system (BVAS) ahead of the governorship and state assembly
elections.
In the ruling delivered on Wednesday, a three-member panel
of the court of appeal led by Joseph Ikyegh, held that restraining the
electoral commission would constrain INEC from conducting the March 11
elections.
In an application, Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the
Labour Party (LP), had sought an order of the court “restraining the 1st
respondent (INEC) from tampering with the information embedded in the BVAS
machines until the due inspection is conducted and certified true copies (CTC)
of them issued”.
Obi and Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, on Friday, secured leave
of the court to have access to all the sensitive materials used by the INEC in
the conduct of the election held on February 25.
However, INEC filed an application to vary the orders of the
court.
Tanimu Inuwa, counsel to the INEC, spoke on Tuesday while
moving an application seeking to vary the orders of the court which gave
permission to Obi and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to
inspect all the sensitive materials used in the conduct of the presidential
election held on February 25.
“Each polling unit has its own particular BVAS machine which
we need to configure for the forthcoming elections,” he said.
“It will be very
difficult for us, within the period, to reconfigure the 176, 000 BVAS for the
election.
“We have already stated in our affidavit that no information
in the BVAS will be lost as we will transfer all the data in the BVAS to our
backend server. Our backend server preserves the data.
“So, granting this application will be a clog in the process
and disrupt the conduct of the elections.”
Ruling on Obi and LP’s application, the court which also
doubles as the presidential election petitions tribunal, said granting the
sixth relief in the application would amount to “tying the hands of the
respondent (INEC)”.
Let nothing happen or tamper with the data. No excuses will be acceptable.
ReplyDeleteLet nothing happen or tamper with the data. No excuses will be acceptable.
ReplyDeleteTell this man to go and read tnb 101 cos his exams is very close. After passing d exam he contest as vice may be to atiku again in 2027. How can he come distant 3rd and still disturbing people
ReplyDeleteThe judges should do the right and save Nigeria and Nigerians from the imminent danger that is about to happen in Nigeria. Nigeria needs good governance and only good and credible people like people Peter Obi. The Judges shouldn’t be Party to the evil that happened on 25th February 2023.We need a new Nigeria where truth,honesty,justice will prevail.Not Nigeria where criminals and corrupt people prevail.
ReplyDeleteYou people are crying fowl when you willingly wasted your vote on that,unspread and religion bigot Mr no structure. Claiming first @distance third position.
DeleteThe judges are definitely not tech savvy. Don’t they know that when a tech device is reconfigured it may result in a lot of things, including reformatting and clearing away all the data contained therein? If that happens, where will the plaintiffs get the results that were uploaded or captured at the PUs from? Judiciary! Don’t try Hope Uzodinma justice this time!
ReplyDeleteIngnorancy is a disease
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