Ahead of the governorship election, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is seeking an order of the court to reconfigure its Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS.
The commission will today approach the Appeal Court for permission following a court order restraining it from tampering with the information embedded in the BVAS machines until due inspection was conducted and Certified True Copies of them issued.
Sources in the commission said INEC would require sufficient time to reconfigure the BVAS needed to conduct the election that would take place in all the 36 states of the federation.
“The commission’s Legal Department is actually preparing an application to be filled in the court on Monday to seek an order for it to reconfigure its BVAS for Saturday Governorship and State Houses of Assembly election,” the source said.
The source explained that considering the number of BVAS required to conduct the election across states, INEC needed to reconfigure the BVAS used for the February 25 elections and deploy them to polling units for the Saturday election.
The source added that INEC technical team have to be deployed on time to commence the re-configuration of the device which have to be done one by one.
The source said the order was important if the Saturday Governorship and state Houses of Assembly election must hold as scheduled, otherwise the postponement of the election became inevitable.
Iwitnesslive recalled that the Court of Appeal in Abuja has on Friday, March 3, granted leave to the presidential candidates of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, to have access to all the sensitive materials used by INEC for the conduct of the presidential election. NAN
