Alex Enumah in Abuja
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal Wednesday granted former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) permission to inspect and obtain Certified True Copy (CTC) of election materials used in the conduct of the February 23 presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The tribunal also ordered INEC to make available all documents and electoral materials used for the election for the purpose of the inspection.
However, a request by Atiku and the PDP to carry out forensic audit on materials and polling documents was declined by the tribunal.
Delivering a unanimous ruling on the ex-parte motion filed by the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku, and the party, Justice Abdul Aboki, held that the applicants’ prayers for scanning and forensic analysis of the election materials run contrary to the provision of section 151 of the Electoral…
