We Didn't Deny Aggrieved political Parties Asccess to Election Materials-INEC
INEC has denied impeding aggrieved political parties from accessing materials
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said it never denied any aggrieved political party access to inspect election materials ordered by the Appeal Court as alleged in some quarters.
INEC made the clarification on Sunday in a television statement by its National Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye. He counselled legal representatives of the affected aggrieved parties to learn channeling their request appropriately, so that, “the issues can be handled expeditiously.”
According to him, elections are conducted does not conduct elections are conducted at the state and local government level, a reason why parties must learn to channel their request appropriately, adding however, that the commission will direct the parties to the appropriate place where they will find the materials they want.
“The commission will not deliberately or flagrantly disobey the order of a properly constituted court of law, and in this case, the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal.
“I think that what the parties involved in this election should do, is to send lawyers who understand the trajectory of the electoral process and request for some of these materials.
“If you are requesting to scan ballot papers used during the election, ballot papers are not in the headquarters of INEC.
“Some of these ballot papers are still in our local government offices and so the proper place to scan them will be at our local government offices.”
Okoye who also threw light on BVAS red configuration, explained that the sensitive material is only reset to recognize the new date for the forthcoming election.
Ruling out the possibility of the commission allowing individuals to witness the reconfiguration, he added that the device contains sensitive information of biometrics of other individuals and so will not allow itself to be reconfigured until all the data in it has been uploaded to the commission’s server.
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