The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked the presidential election petition tribunal to amend the orders granted to the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP).
Both Peter Obi of the LP and Atiku Abubakar of the PDP had on Friday secured leave of the court to have access to all the sensitive materials used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the conduct of the election held on February 25.
A panel of the appellate court led by Joseph Ikyegh made the orders on Friday after the court heard two separate ex parte applications filed by the two aggrieved candidates and their political parties.
INEC, in a motion on notice filed on March 4, asked the court to vary the order which restrained it from tampering with materials used for the election.
The commission in its motion said it needs to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for the upcoming governorship and state houses of assembly election.
The Court has also consequently struck out one of the reliefs where Obi and LP had sought an order of the court “restraining the 1st respondent (INEC) from tampering with the information embedded in the BVAS machines until due inspection was conducted and Certified True Copies of them issued”.
Both Atiku and Obi have gone to court challenge the result of the presidential election that produced Bola Ahmed Tinubu of APC as the winner on February 25.