President-Elect Pray Court To Obtain Election Materials To Defend Himself

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Bola Ahmed Tinubu the president-elect of Nigeria had on Tuesday approached the Court of Appeal in Abuja to order the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to grant him access to sensitive materials used during the presidential election he won.

This is coming through Tinubu’s lawyer, Mr Akintola Makinde. He said 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 added.

Reports have it that Tinubu’s first ex-parte application filed on March 6, has the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi as respondents, in the second application, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, were cited as respondents, alongside INEC.

However, the court which will sit at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, deferred ruling on Tinubu’s application till Wednesday.