Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC), says the commission has nothing to hide from the
Labour Party (LP).
Speaking during a meeting with the legal team of the LP on
Monday, the INEC chairman said the commission would make available any document
the party requests.
NigerianEye reported that the legal team of the party was
having a meeting with officials of INEC over the request to inspect materials
used for the February 25 presidential poll.
Yakubu told the legal team that materials at the
commission’s headquarters would be provided.
He said a meeting would be fixed between states and the team
to inspect materials in the custody of states’ offices of the commission across
the country.
“I want to assure you that the commission will not hide any
document from anybody and will make available any document that they have
requested. There are two categories of documents; those that are in possession
of the headquarters of INEC, we will easily make these documents available to
you,” he said.
“The EC8E, the declaration, so many, a total of I think 39
documents, we can easily certify and give you almost immediately.
“As for other
documents that you are asking for, they are at the state level. So, we need to work
out the schedule so that we know when your team is going to which state and on
which date so that we can easily facilitate not just the certification of
documents, but also the inspection of these documents that you requested.
“The other one is accreditation data from the back end. This
will also be made available to you. Remember that the accreditation data covers
over 176,000 polling units.
“We have to print them physically to certify them and give
them to you. So the tall and short of what I’m saying is that you will get this
document speedily.
“They will also make arrangements and notify our resident
electoral commissioners of your intended visit so that these documents will be
made available to you, including access to the inspection of any category of
materials.
“So I crave your
indulgence to suggest that let your team interface with the legal team of the
commission immediately. So you work these things out and then we make all the
documents available to you.
“But please be assured, the lead counsel, that INEC has
nothing to hide. Whatever you are asking for will be made available to you.”
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