Tinubu seeks court order to obtain materials to defend his election

On Tuesday, Bola Tinubu, the winner of the election for president, petitioned the Court of Appeal in Abuja to ask the Independent National Election Commission, INEC, to provide him access to sensitive materials used in the poll.

Through his attorney, Mr. Akintola Makinde, Tinubu stated that in order to prepare his defense against petitions that would seek to invalidate his election, he would need to examine, scan, and make duplicates of some of the electoral papers.

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The materials will be helpful in assisting us in organizing our defense and in comparing them to the data on INEC’s back-end server, Makinde continued.

While INEC and the Labour Party were listed as respondents in Tinubu’s first ex-parte application, which was submitted on March 6, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its own candidate, Atiku Abubakar, were listed as respondents in the second application.

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The appellate court postponed making a decision on Tinubu’s plea until Wednesday, when it will convene as the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.