BEVERLY HILLS, March 06, (THEWILL) –Â The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar, has filed an ex-parte motion at the court of Appeal in Abuja, seeking various orders of the court to allow him to access all documents used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the February 23, Presidential elections.
The ex-parte motion is praying for an order compelling INEC to allow them to Inspect the register and other vital documents used in the conduct of the election unhindered.
In the motion dated March 4 and filed March 5, Atiku and the PDP applied that the Appellate Court, serving as the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, compel the electoral body to allow their agents to scan and make photocopies of vital documents used in the last presidential election for the purpose of maintaining their petition against the election.
Specifically, the ex-parte motion indicated that the order requested against INEC is for the purpose of filing and maintaining an election petition before the tribunal and has INEC, President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) as respondents.
