The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Uyo, Akwa Ibom has ordered INEC to allow the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawyers inspect election materials used during the March 9 Governorship Election.
Justice A. M. Yakubu, the tribunal Chairman, gave the order on Thursday while ruling in a Motion on Notice filed by the PDP legal team led by Mr. Godwill Umoh.
Meanwhile, Yakubu, ordered INEC to comply with the order of the court without further delay, stressing that it was an offense for the commission to disobey tribunal order.
The lead Counsel to Governor Udom Emmanuel and PDP, Umoh while speaking to journalists said the party approached the tribunal through a Notice on Motion, to order INEC to allow the party, inspect election materials used during the governorship election.
Umoh disclosed that the inspection of the election materials would enable the PDP show how they won in the just concluded governorship election in Akwa Ibom.
Complaining at the tribunal, the lead Counsel to Mr. Nsima Ekere, the APC governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom on March 9, election, informed the tribunal that INEC was frustrating the party from inspecting the election materials as ordered by the tribunal since April 15.
