The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, yesterday launched a legal battle over last month’s presidential election with indication that it intends to rely heavily on evidence provided by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The CPC whose candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, came second in the election approached the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to compel INEC and all its Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, to furnish it with certain documents and material evidence that will be pivotal to the success of its petition against the result of the election.
About 400 other petitioners who contested the National Assembly, governorship and state Assembly elections have also gone to court over their defeat.
Buhari and Jega
Defendants in the CPC suit are INEC National Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega; the presidential candidate of the PDP, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan; his running mate, Architect Namadi Sambo; the PDP; and all the Resident Electoral Commissioners for the 36 states of the federation including the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
In an ex-parte motion filed yesterday by counsel to the plaintiff, Chief Ricky Tarfa , SAN, pursuant to Sections 77(1) and 151 of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended), Order 26 Rule 8 of the Federal High Court Civil Procedure Rules, 2009, CPC is seeking an order directing all the respondents to seal all the Direct Data Capturing Machines (DDC machines), ballot papers, as well as the ballot boxes used in the Presidential Election with a view to preserving same for Forensic test in the course of hearing a petition it is yet to file before the tribunal.
The CPC whose candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, came second in the election approached the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to compel INEC and all its Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, to furnish it with certain documents and material evidence that will be pivotal to the success of its petition against the result of the election.
About 400 other petitioners who contested the National Assembly, governorship and state Assembly elections have also gone to court over their defeat.
Buhari and Jega
Defendants in the CPC suit are INEC National Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega; the presidential candidate of the PDP, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan; his running mate, Architect Namadi Sambo; the PDP; and all the Resident Electoral Commissioners for the 36 states of the federation including the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
In an ex-parte motion filed yesterday by counsel to the plaintiff, Chief Ricky Tarfa , SAN, pursuant to Sections 77(1) and 151 of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended), Order 26 Rule 8 of the Federal High Court Civil Procedure Rules, 2009, CPC is seeking an order directing all the respondents to seal all the Direct Data Capturing Machines (DDC machines), ballot papers, as well as the ballot boxes used in the Presidential Election with a view to preserving same for Forensic test in the course of hearing a petition it is yet to file before the tribunal.
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