Head of the Labour Party/Peter Obi’s Legal Team, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu with Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, at the commission’s headquarters, Monday
‘INEC has nothing to hide,” Prof Yakubu tells Obi’s lawyers
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has told lawyers representing the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) at the just-concluded February 25 elections, Peter Obi, that his commission has nothing to hide, adding that documents relating to the polls are still available at its headquarters in Abuja.
According to Prof Yakubu, the commission will provide all the documents the Obi legal team requested for to prosecute its case before the Appeal Court which is serving as the Presidential Election Tribunal (PET).
The members of the Obi legal team were at the commission’s office in Abuja in compliance with the court order granted to the LP candidate to inspect sensitive materials deployed by INEC in the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections, and were received by Prof. Yakubu, who further told them that all documents ‘will be given immediately.’
Receiving the legal team, Yakubu assured the lawyers of the commission’s readiness to provide all documents needed to prosecute its case at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
“INEC has nothing to hide. Documents available at the HQ will be given immediately.
“We are meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners today and we will discuss how other documents at the state level could also be made available to you speedily.”
The meeting with INEC officials was held at the Commission’s national headquarters to start the process of inspection of electoral materials used for the February 25 presidential election.
It would be recalled that the Labour Party had accused INEC of flouting the orders of the Presidential Elections Tribunal (PET) by not allowing it to inspect the election materials following the commission’s decision to commence reconfiguration of its Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines in its absence.
