Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party filed a motion to compel the electoral commission to allow the inspection.
ABUJA - A tribunal on Wednesday ordered Nigeria’s electoral body to allow the main opposition to inspect materials used in last month’s poll which President Muhammadu Buhari won after allegations of fraud by the rival party.
After the election result was announced, Atiku, 72, rejected the outcome, pointing out one obvious red flag: States in the northeast ravaged by insurgents’ attacks generated much higher voter turnouts than peaceful states. The PDP then asked to inspect voter registers, card reader machines, ballot papers and other documents used for the 23 February vote. On Wednesday, a, three-man panel granted the request.
“ allow the applicant and all their representatives to inspect polling documents ... used in the just-concluded presidential election to enable the applicants to institute and maintain an election petition,” the judge said.
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