The President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has asked the Court of Appeal, Abuja, to order the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to grant him access to sensitive materials used for last month’s presidential election.
This comes a few days after presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP), 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 where Tinubu emerged the winner.
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In an ex parte application dated March 6 and filed by his lawyer, Akintola Makinde, which was made available to journalists on Tuesday, Tinubu urged the court to order INEC to allow him to inspect, scan and make photocopies of some of the materials used for the election.
This, according to him, will enable him to prepare his defence on the petitions against his victory in the February 25 election.
Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi were also listed as respondents in the suit.
“The materials will be relevant in helping us to prepare our defence and also make comparison with the information contained in INEC’s back-end server,” Tinubu added.
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Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday announced the appointment of a Presidential Election Petition Legal team made up of 12 Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) to defend the mandate of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as he goes into a legal battle with other candidates to defend his victory at the February 25 presidential poll.
