The Supreme Court has suspended
proceedings to rule on an appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its
candidate in the last presidential election, for permission to be allowed
access to a supposed server owned by the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC).
The Presidential Election
Petition Court (PEPC) had on June 24, 2019 dismissed an application by Atiku
and the PDP requesting permission to have access to the central server, which
they claimed INEC used for the February 23 poll.
It is the decision of June 24
that Atiku and the PDP now appealed at the Supreme Court.
A panel of the Supreme Court (led
by Justice Datijo Mohammed after taking arguments from Eyitayo Jegede, SAN,
(for the appellants); Yunus Usman, SAN, (for INEC); Wole Olanipekun, SAN, (for
President Muhammadu Buhari) and Charles Edosomwan, SAN, (for the All
Progressives Congress), rose briefly to consider the arguments and return for
its decision.
The Election Petition Court, at
the Court of Appeal, Abuja, had, while dismissing the application by Atiku and
the PDP, held that INEC, having denied the existence of the said server and
insisted that results of the election were not electronically transmitted into
any server as claimed by the petitioners (Atiku and PDP), granting the
application would amount to deciding the central issue in the petition at the
interlocutory stage.
The court’s Presiding Justice,
Justice Mohammed Garba, who read the ruling, added that granting the
application would imply that the court had “indeed recognised and found out
that there is a central server into which results of the held on February 23,
2019 were electronically transmitted by the 1st respondent (INEC).”
Details shortly.
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