Author:The presidential election petition tribunal has dismissed an application filed by the Labour Party seeking to question the Independent National Electoral Commission on the technology deployed for the conduct of the election.
The application, tagged CA/PEPC/03/2023, was filed by the LP and Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate. In two applications, the petitioners through Patrick Ikweto, their counsel, prayed the court to order INEC to supply the names and other details of its ICT professionals that deployed electronic devices for the conduct of the election.Specifically, the petitioners maintained that given INEC’s reply to their petition, the commission should be compelled to answer 12 questions posed to it.
“It is for the applicant to take a step towards the hearing of his motion on notice. The court cannot do that for him.