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Just In: INEC Asks Tribunal to Vary Inspection Order Granted Atiku, Obi

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged the Presidential Election Petition Court to vary the orders that were granted to the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi respectively, to inspect materials used for the last presidential election.

INEC, in a motion on notice filed on March 4, is praying the court to vary the order which restrained it from tampering with materials used for the election.

The commission said it needed to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System for the next round of elections.

NewsmakersNG reports that it is the sole prayer in the application of the electoral umpire filed at the court.

The appellate court had on March 3, granted leave to Abubakar and Obi to inspect election materials used by INEC to conduct the February 25 election.

The court granted the duo permission following two separate ex parte applications filed by Atiku and Obi, who came second and third respectively in the presidential election won by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

No date has, however, been fixed for hearing of the application.

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