Atiku Files Motion Compelling INEC To Surrender Election Materials For Inspection

Atiku Files Motion Compelling INEC To Surrender Referendum Materials For Inspection
PDP and its presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, have filed a motion to hogtie the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to surrender all the materials that were used for the February 23 presidential election, for inspection.

The motion ex-parte was lodged surpassing the Presidential Referendum Petitions Tribunal on Tuesday. The Tribunal will self-mastery its proceedings at the Court of Appeal Headquarters in Abuja.

In the motion ex-parte dated March 4, Atiku and the PDP, unromantic for leave of the tribunal to indulge them to inspect the Voters Register, the Smart Card Reader Machines, Ballot Papers and other vital documents that were used in the self-mastery of the presidential election.

They equally prayed the tribunal to hogtie the electoral soul to indulge their teachers to scan and make photocopies of vital documents used in the self-mastery of the election, for the purpose of establishing so-called irregularities.

The Applicants, through their lawyer, Chief Chris Uche, SAN, told the tribunal that the reliefs sought versus INEC was for the purpose of filing and maintaining an referendum petition they intend to lodge versus the outcome of the 2019 Presidential Election.

The motion ex-parte motion was supported with a 12 paragraphed testimony that was deposed to by one Col. Austin Akobundu, rtd, the director of Contact and Mobilization of the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Council.