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Fawaz Adebisi
A Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja has compelled the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to grant the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi access to the sensitive February 25 election materials in its custody.
This was after the court gave both of them the permission to inspect materials used for the presidential election, following their request.
The request was granted by a three-member panel of the appellate court, led by Justice Joseph Ikyegh, on Friday.
The court also granted the request by Obi to bring the application outside or before the pre-hearing session.
Atiku’s lawyer, Adedamola Faloku, sought seven prayers from the tribunal.
The ex parte application by Obi’s counsel, Alex Ejesieme (SAN) has six principal reliefs.
The applications had INEC, Senator Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) as respondents.
Their applications were predicated on Section 146 (1) of the Electoral Act 2022, Paragraph 47 (1, 2 &3) of the First Schedule of the Electoral Act of 2022, as well as under the inherent jurisdiction of the Court as referenced by Section 6 (6) A & B of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.
Both Obi and Atiku have vowed to challenge the victory of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the All Progressives Congress (APC).
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