Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has told the legal team of the Labour Party (LP) that the Commission is prepared to give any documents required to support the case at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
In order to begin the process of inspecting the electoral materials used for the February 25 presidential election, Prof. Yakubu made the remark at a meeting with the LP legal team at the Commission’s offices in Abuja.
“INEC has nothing to hide. Documents available at the HQ will be given immediately,” Yakubu was quoted as saying in a statement on the Commission’s Facebook page.
“We are meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners today and we will discuss how other documents at the state level could also be made available to you speedily.”
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The LP had charged INEC with refusing to permit it to examine the election materials and threatened to demonstrate outside the Commission’s regional offices.
“We, therefore, want to state that we will not fail to call our supporters to march to INEC offices nationwide in a non-violent protest which is allowed by law,” the party’s chief campaign spokesman Yunusa Tanko said. “This is to curtail the flagrant disobedience to court orders by INEC.”
