Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has finally complied with the order of the National and state House of Assembly Elections Petition judicature to permit former governor of the state, Dr. Orji Kalu to examine documents used for Abia North legislator election.
Counsel to the petitioner, Mr. good Okorie, confirmed the event to the judicature, sitting at the Federal judicature advanced in Umuahia, wherever it settled when its inaugural sitting at Abia State judicature advanced on Ikot-Ekpene Road, Umuahia.
The judicature additionally granted Kalu another ex-parte order yesterday to examine and retrieve records from the cardboard readers deployed for the election.
Kalu, World Health Organization ran for the election on the platform of Progressive Peoples Alliance ( PPA), is difficult the come back of Mao Ohuabunwa of the Peoples political party (PDP).
Chairman of the judicature, Justice Muhammad Wakili, said: “The judicature herewith grants the request to examine data recorded all told the cardboard readers used for the Abia North legislator District election.”
He ordered that the exercise be conducted among seven days and adjourned the matter until might twenty five.
Counsel to Kalu, Okorie, had at the inaugural sitting of the judicature on might half-dozen, applied to be allowed access to the documents used for the election.
“We had to report back to the judicature on the compliance to date, to tell them that INEC was able to go with the order. you recognize INEC and their foot-dragging; they wouldn’t wish you to possess what you wish to prosecute your petition, but then, we have a tendency to had to compel them to try to to that and that they solely united to try to to that nowadays (yesterday) and that they are headed to Arochukwu,” Okorie same.
“Assuming they need not been obliging to the extent they\'re currently, the judicature would have created some of import orders against INEC and so demand their immediate compliance,” he explained.
Okorie explicit that in line with the order of the judicature for them to examine data on the cardboard readers, his team would do this at once “with our rhetorical consultants.”