The Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has granted the requests of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its gubernatorial candidate in the April 11, 2015 governorship election in the state to inspect election materials used for the election.
The APC and its candidate had through their counsel sought the leave of the court to order the inspection of electoral materials used for the governorship election in Rivers State.
In the motion exparte dated June 3 and filed on June 8, counsel to APC and the its Governorship candidate, Dakuku Peterside, Olumide Olujinmi, prayed the court for an order allowing the inspection of the electoral materials related to the conduct of the gubernatorial election in the state.
He begged the court to order the inspection of card readers and records of electoral materials used in all the polling units in the state.
In a short ruling delivered by Justice Muazu Abdulkadir Pindiga, the tribunal granted the requests of the appplicants.
It however, asked the applicants to put the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the State governor, Nyesom Wike on notice on the other request to conduct a forensic analysis on the computers, and computer servers used for the election.
The APC in Rivers State and its candidate in the election, Peterside Dakuku dragged INEC, PDP and the governor of the state, Nyesom Wike before the tribunal to challenge his victory at the April 11 election in the state.
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