The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) decision to approach the Court of Appeal in Abuja, for an order varying the permission the court had previously granted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) to inspect materials used by the commission in the conduct of the February 25 presidential election has elicited questions about the integrity of the recently held poll.

INEC said the request was predicated on the need to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) used in the presidential election before deploying them for the March 11 governorship and state Houses of Assembly polls.

However, some IT experts who didn’t want their names in print were unanimous that granting the order would allow the electoral body to tamper with the evidence and compromise the pending litigations on the controversial poll and further worsen the credibility of the entire process.

The IT experts believe that INEC does not need to reconfigure the BVAS ahead of the gubernatorial and the states’ houses of assembly polls.

The presidential candidates of PDP, Atiku Abubakar, and LP, Peter Obi, had in their challenge of the outcome of the presidential election, recently, obtained the order of the court to inspect materials used in the conduct of the poll, including the BVAS.

INEC had declared candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, winner of the presidential election, which was marred by technical challenges.

The controversial poll has been rejected by the two leading opposition parties and had been criticised by international observers and civil society organisations.

Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor, was said to have polled a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat his closest rival and presidential candidate of PDP, Atiku, who scored 6,984,520 votes, and Peter Obi of LP, who polled 6,101,533 votes, in an election that INEC failed to ensure instantaneous transmission of results to its IReV at the conclusion of voting at polling units as originally planned for the 2023 general election.

Both Tinubu and Atiku won 12 states each, while Obi won 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The Court of Appeal presided by Justice Joseph Ikyegh had last Friday, while delivering ruling in two separate applications, permitted Atiku and Obi to inspect the said materials, which they intended to use in proving their allegations of non-compliance and rigging of the poll.

The appellate court, ruling in an ex parte application, permitted Atiku and Obi to inspect, “All the electoral materials used in the conduct of the election for the office of the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria held on February 25, 2023.”

The court also permitted Atiku and Obi to do electronic scanning and/or make photocopies of Voter’s Registration and ballot papers used in the presidential election.

In addition, both Atiku and Obi were by the order permitted to, “Carryout digital forensic inspection of BVAS machines used for the conduct of the February 25” presidential election.

However, INEC, in a fresh application, which THISDAY learnt was filed over the weekend, asked the appellate court to vary the order so as to allow the electoral umpire reconfigure the BVAS for use in the March 11 governorship and Houses of Assembly elections.

According to a source in INEC, the application became necessary following an order restraining the commission from tampering with the information embedded in the BVAS machines until due inspection was conducted and Certified True Copies (CTC) issued to the applicants.

The source added that INEC needed sufficient time to reconfigure the BVAS to be used during this Saturday’s poll holding in the 36 states of the federation, excluding the FCT.

According to the source, considering the number of BVAS machines required to conduct the election across the states, INEC needs to reconfigure the BVAS used for the February 25 elections before deploying them to the various polling units.

The source said the technical team of the commission had to be deployed on time to start the reconfiguration of the devices, which had to be done one by one.

The source maintained that not varying the order could result to postponement of the March 11 elections.

Source- https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2023/03/07/inecs-application-to-court-to-reconfigure-bvas-raises-integrity-questions/

INEC OLE

This is the same BVAS INEC fraudulently wants to reconfigure @ this crucial period? INEC is a fraudulent and criminal agency of government masquerading as a political party to rig election for APC.

Once the court declares the winner, I expect no one to keep disturbing the threads with cries o.

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Prof. Mahmood successfully turned Prof. Maurice Iwu to a Saint.

They shouldn't be allowed to reconfigure anything

Big thieves
INEC, Tinubu and his supporters are all mad

INEC don shit for temple!... You can't escape that easily!

The courts will have to be terribly compromised to allow such nonsense!

The will of God will prevail

Mr. INEC postpone the governorship elections if you have to postpone it! It will not be the first time elections have been postponed. You have not compiled with the order of the court allowing LP to inspect the equipment but you are asking the same court to allow you to reconfigure them. You must be mad! LP/PDP must be allowed to inspect and extract data from BVAS before INEC can do any further thing with them. I hear APC has applied too.

Na who think say Eye Neck get integrity go dey surprised.

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JNEC said they need sufficient time. Okay.
Court should just decline their request as such will guarantee the election to be postponed so that dat sufficient time will be available. Two weeks extension would kill us. Any reconfiguration at this time will further dent INEC. If we can't procure new set of BVAS then allow Obi access to get certified true copies of data stored in d BVAS

INEC is working with APC after bn bought over by BULLION VAN.

"What INEC is trying to do is diversionary, but most importantly, they want to wipe out the BVAS accreditation data, which is the most reliable source of data, from the BVAS machine."
-Barr. Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), Peter Obi's attorney after Court today.

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Let me tell you all the truth.
As much as there's doubt over the integrity of INEC, all Nigerians must understand that the technology we use is not on same level as what's used in developed countries. It's even possible our INEC budget was higher than that of countries that conducted elections and there was no suspicion of foul play from all parties or the masses.
One on one, you all know that Nigeria lacked stable power supply. The network we use for phone calls, subscriptions or e-banking is not same level as what a country of the age and resources of Nigeria should have.
I laughed within me when INEC said they now v BIVAS. Of what use is technology when what you need to power and make it function smoothly is not available.
Don't be surprised when you see people borrowing INEC power bank or gen to power some equipments.
What am saying is we are at an all time low.
Instead of successive govts to be doing well, every Tom Dick and Harry ll come in after election and eat his/her own.
One major problem, reduction in cost of governance hasn't been solved. Buhariii won my heart with it in 2015 but I later realised the guy na scam. He even ate and allowed others to eat.
What I expect from youth is the real movement of making Nigeria work. Not Obidient, not Take It Back, not Revolution, not ENDSARS.
It's two things
1. A call on senate in national assembly and reps that all cost of governance, salary and emoluments should be slashed to civil servant ratio while the 1999 constitution is reviewed.

2. A determination to vote out candidates based on personal convictions. A lot voting don't v genuine info about who they are voting.

We can hold them for real by the scrotum if we demand for reduction in allowances of public service and elected personnel. This ll make politics less attractive.
My opinion.

Eyeneck na th!ef

Racoon:
This is the same BVAS INEC fraudulently wants to reconfigure @ this crucial period? INEC is a fraudulent and criminal agency of government masquerading as a political party to rig election for APC.

Church take back your country - Peteru Obliar

Lies and sectionalism will not win you elections. Nigeria belongs to all. The elections have to put to bed the idiotic line and strategy of mobilising people based on religion and ethnicity rather than reason and common sense.

Wish you well on your next 4 years of wailing without direction.

Very shameless and corrupted organization

Shame!

IT guys about to cashout from INEC and APC.

I'm sure APC would be willing to pay any amount just to mess up with the IREV database.

LP needs to be ahead of them.

Scrap everything on the IREV site before they're tampered.

Tinubu days are numbered

No matter how far a lie runs, the truth will always catch up with it.

Criminal INEC wants to reconfigure BVAS for what? Their lame excuse is the gubernatorial elections... Let them postpone the elections so that Sanwo Olu can keep writing his 'love letters'. We want to see more gubernatorial aspirants from other parties kneel down like Peter Mbah.

I see the INEC chairman committing suicide or going to jail ..

It's what I see in the spirit realms

INEC has a right to the BVAS.
I pray the courts to postpone LP inspection till after the Gubernatorial.
INEC has an election to conduct in a matter of days. Any act preventing them from this is tantamount to an electoral malpractice.

Wetin consine INEC with INTEGRITY?

INEC NA WIKE?

If you want real integrity, go to WIKE and the G-1.5 governors ke!

Dem wan clean up crime scenes.😆😆

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