BVAS Data Remains Untouched — INEC Tells Court, Parties

• INEC has affirmed to the court and parties that BVAS data has not been tampered with.

• The electoral body gave the assurance on Tuesday at the Court of Appeal in Abuja.

• INEC insisted that granting Peter Obi’s request would affect its preparations for the forthcoming governorship and houses of assembly elections.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission has said that information in the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System used for February 25 presidential poll is intact.

The electoral commission lead counsel, Tanimu Inuwa, gave the assurance on Tuesday at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, while opposing an application filed by the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on BVAS deployed in the presidential poll.

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Opposing the application, Inuwa argued it would delay the conduct of governorship and houses of assembly elections scheduled for Saturday.

Earlier, Obi, lead counsel, Dr Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, had argued that the essence of the application was to enable the legal team to extract data embedded in the BVAS, “which represent the actual results from polling units.”

Obi’s lawyers also applied to obtain the certified true copy of all the data in the BVAS.
“My lords, this is to sure that the evidence is preserved before the BVAS are reconfigured by INEC. This is because if they are wiped out, it will affect the substance of the case”, Ikpeazu added.

However, INEC, through its team of lawyers comprising four Senior Advocates of Nigeria, led by Inuwa, urged the court to refuse the application.

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INEC insisted that granting the request by Obi would affect its preparations for the impending governorship and houses of assembly elections.

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