Court fixes March 8 to rule on INEC’s request about BVAS
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has fixed Wednesday, March 8 to consider the merit of the application by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) seeking fot permission to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) used for the February 25 presidential election.
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A three-member panel of the appellate court on Tuesday adjourned to rule on the application to conduct a physical inspection of all the BVAS that was used for the presidential poll.
Neptune Prime reports that PDP and LP presidential candidates, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, approached the Court of Appeal in Abuja to obtain an order that would allow them to inspect election materials used by INEC to conduct the presidential and National Assembly elections.
Through their team of lawyers led by Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), they said the essence of the application was to enable them to extract data embedded in the BVAS, “which represent the actual results from Polling Units”.
However, INEC, through its team of lawyers led by Tanimu Inuwa, urged the court to refuse the application.
INEC insisted that granting the request by Obi and Labour Party would affect its preparations for Saturday’s Governorship and National Assembly elections.
After it had listened to the parties, Justice Joseph Ikyegh-led the panel adjourned ruling on the matter till Wednesday, March 8th.