The Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council on Sunday reiterated that its supporters would not back down on their planned nationwide demonstration unless the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) grants Labour Party’s lawyers access to materials from the 25 February presidential election.
Controversies had trailed the outcome of the presidential election where the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and the Labour Party flag bearer, Mr Peter Obi, who got 6,984,520 and 6,101,533 votes respectively.
Dissatisfied with the result, both Obi and Atiku approached the election tribunal to seek permission to inspect the electoral materials used during the poll.
Few days later, the Court of Appeal in Abuja acceded to their requests for inspection of the electoral materials but the commission failed to grant the warring parties access.
The development is coming four days after INEC secured a court injunction to reconfigure the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System machines ahead of the 18 March governorship and states Assembly elections.
But the chief spokesman for Obi campaign council, Yunusa Tanko maintained there was no going back on mobilization of their supporters to occupy INEC offices nationwide.
Tanko accused INEC of disobeying the order of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to grant Obi and the party access to the certified true copies of materials used in the conduct of the poll.
“We didn’t fix a date for the protest because we deliberately wanted to give INEC up till Monday to respond to us first.
