THE Court of Appeal in Abuja Wednesday granted the Independent National Electoral Commission – INEC, permission to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System – BVAS, machines used for the 25 February presidential and National Assembly elections across the country.
A three-member panel of the appellate court led by Joseph Ikyegh however, ordered INEC to upload the data on the BVAS machines to the back-end server and make certified true copies of the data to the respondents.
Prior to this, the court had granted an order permitting the Peoples Democratic Party – PDP, presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku, and his Labour Party – LP, rival, Peter Obi, to inspect the BVAS machines and other sensitive electoral materials.
Atiku and Obi had requested access to the electoral materials preparatory to filing their petitions to challenge the outcomes of the 25 presidential elections in court.
