Like Obi And Atiku, Tinubu Seeks Court Order To Inspect INEC Materials

• INEC recently declared Tinubu the winner of the 2023 presidential election.

• His two main rivals, Atiku and Obi, disputed his victory.

• The duo recently secured court orders to inspect sensitive materials used for the election.

Eko Hot Blog reports that President-elect Bola Tinubu has sought an order from the Court of Appeal to access sensitive materials used by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the presidential election.

Last week, INEC declared Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the February 25 poll.

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The commission announced that the APC candidate polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 6,984,520 votes, and Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party (LP), who secured 6,101,533 votes.

On Tuesday, the president-elect, through his lawyer, Akintola Makinde, told the court he would need to inspect, scan and make photocopies of some of the electoral materials to enable him to prepare his defence against petitions that would seek to nullify his election.

“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,” Makinde said.

Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi

The first ex parte application lists the Labour Party and Obi, its presidential candidate, and INEC as respondents.

In the second application, the PDP, and its candidate, Abubakar, are cited as respondents, alongside INEC.

PDP Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar

The appellate court presided over by a three-member panel has fixed a ruling for Wednesday.

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Meanwhile, the two main opposition parties, PDP and LP on Friday, secured leave of the court to have access to all the sensitive materials used by the INEC in the conduct of the election.

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