Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 polls has arrived at the Court of Appeal in Abuja to observe the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) case involving his party and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja is set to deliver a ruling on the application by INEC seeking to be allowed to reconfigure the BVAS machines it used for the presidential election.
A three-member panel led by Justice Joseph Ikyegh will also deliver a ruling on the application filed by the Labour Party (LP), and its candidate, Mr Peter Obi, seeking to be allowed to conduct a physical inspection of all the BVAS machines that were used for the poll, Channel News reports.
Onyechi Ikpeazu, counsel for Obi, said the essence of the application was to enable them to extract data embedded in the BVAS, which represented the actual results from polling units.
Ikpeazu, prayed the court to allow them to conduct a physical inspection of all the BVAS that were used for the presidential election, as this is to ensure that the evidence is preserved before the BVAS are reconfigured by INEC.
He added that if the data were wiped out, it would affect the substance of the case.
Counsel for INEC, Tanimu Inuwa, however, urged the court to reject the application, insisting that granting the request by Obi and the LP would affect its preparations for the impending governorship and state assembly elections.
