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March 7, 2019
The PresidentialElection Petition Tribunal has ordered the Independent National ElectoralCommission, INEC to allow the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDPAtiku Abubakar access to inspect electoral materials used in the presidentialelection.
Chairman of thetribunal Justice Abdul Aboki led two other justices to give the ruling inAbuja.
Aboki, however, turneddown the applicants’ prayer for access to scan and conduct forensic audit onall the electoral materials, including technology used in the conduct of theelection.
The Judge held thatscanning and forensic examination of electoral materials by experts was notpermissible, adding that those steps were not captured in Section 151 of theElectoral Act, 2010.
Aboki also explainedthat the result of forensic analysis was not admissible as evidence in court,adding that granting such a prayer would amount to wasting of time. He said theapplicants should base the substance of their petition on official materialsonly obtained from the electoral body.