The Court of Appeal wey dey for Abuja don approve say make dem inspect the election materials wey dem take do the presidential election as requested by Atiku Abubakar wey be the PDP’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi wey dey LP, and Bola Ahmed Tinubu wey win the election for APC. Report wey dem submit give INEC by the three parties’ lawyers talk say the LP’s team don start to inspect the materials on Monday.
Tanimu Inuwa, SAN, wey dey represent INEC lawyers talk say the commission get forms Ec8d (summary of results) wey concern every state and FCT, Ec8da (national summary) and Ec8a. He come add say the BVAS and backend report wey pass 11,000 pages dey finalise and the result sheets and ballot papers dey for different states, no be for INEC headquarters. He come suggest say dem go make timetable for inspection sake of say e go easy am and the people wey dem appoint to inspect am go come be limited.
Joe-Kyari Gadzama, SAN, wey dey represent PDP and their presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar talk say their team go start the inspection of the election materials the next day. He talk say the PDP wey dey different states don go to the INEC offices to inspect am but dem no gree make dem inspect because the headquarters never give dem permission.
He talk say apart from the documents wey dem ask for, dem go still need the report wey concern the offline and online logs and server from February 25 go reach March 1 and the phone numbers wey dem use on top each BVAS.
Babatunde Ogala, SAN, wey dey represent APC, come suggest say make all the parties inspect the documents together sake of say dem wan make the thing transparent and make joint committee wey go get all the parties for inside make dem fit make timetable for inspection.
However, LP’s Livy Uzochukwu, SAN talk say the LP and PDP don already carry their petitions give the court, na why dem go come first, and the timelines no be the same for everybody, so make dem treat the petitioners wey come first with priority.
Gadzama talk say the LP and PDP get many things wey dem get in common and dem get more challenges than APC. He come talk say make dem no limit the number of people wey go fit inspect am sake of say the petitioners don get plenty burden for their hand.
He come demand say make dem send message go the INEC for different states make dem fit allow dem inspect. The meeting come agree say make the PDP and APC fit start the inspection immediately; while the LP wey don start the inspection already go continue from where dem stop am.
The inspection of the election materials na part of the matter wey dey for court sake of say Atiku Abubakar and the LP’s Peter Obi dey challenge the declaration wey talk say Bola Ahmed Tinubu of APC win the February 25 presidential election.