A’Court ignores Obi, grants INEC’s request to reconfigure BVAS

The Appeal Court in Abuja on Wednesday granted the request of the Independent National Electoral Commission to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) used for the February 25 presidential election

A three-member panel of justices led by Justice Joseph Ikyegh ruled that the reconfiguration was to enable the commission to conduct the March 11 governorship and state assembly elections.

The ruling was in an application by the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, seeking access to inspect and certify sensitive materials used for the conduct of the election.

The panel turned down the application to stop INEC from reconfiguring the BVAS.

The panel said INEC’s submission that the accreditation data from the 176,000 BVAS used for the election would be uploaded and stored in the backend of the server was not challenged or controverted by Obi and the LP and thus they were deemed admitted.