The Presidential Election Petiton Court, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja has granted an application filed by the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, it used for the February 25 presidential election.
One of the reasons given by the three- man panel of justices headed by justice Joseph Ikyegh was that if INEC is stopped from reconfiguring the BVAS that it would seriously affect the March 11 Governorship and State Assembly elections.
The court however dismissed objections that the Labour Party, LP, and its presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, raised against INEC’s move to reconfigure all the BVAS.
In separate ruling the court ordered INEC to allow Obi and his party to inspect and carry out digital forensic examination of all the electoral materials used in the conduct of the elections, as well as to avail them the Certified True Copy, of result of the physical inspection of the BVAS.
A similar application filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar was dismissed after it was withdrawn on the grounds that it was the same issue raised by the Labour Party and its presidential candidate.
The court also granted application filed by the All Progressives Congress and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu to inspect the INEC materials used in the conduct of the election.
