President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) on Tuesday, requested the Court of Appeal in Abuja to order the Independent National Electoral Commission to grant him access to sensitive materials it used for the presidential election.
Tinubu made this request through his lawyer, Akintola Makinde, noting that 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.
While Tinubu’s first ex-parte application, which was filed on March 6, has the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi as respondents, in the second application, the Peoples Democratic Party, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, were cited as respondents, alongside INEC
As maintained by Makinde, “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.”
Punch reported that the appellate court sitting as the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal will on Wednesday rule on Tinubu’s application.
