The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal on Friday granted the separate ex-parte application filed by the Presidential candidates of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar seeking permission from the court to inspect the electoral materials for Saturday’s presidential election.
Adedamola Faloku, counsel to Atiku prayed the Court to grant the ex parte application brought before it pursuant to Section 146 (1) of the Electoral Act 2022, Paragraph 47 (1, 2 &3) of the first Schedule of the Electoral Act of 2022 and under the inherent jurisdiction of the Court as referenced by Section 6 (6) A & B of the 1999 Constitution.
The application sort seven prayers predicated on six grounds.
Atiku and Obi had separately approached the court with two different ex-parte motions they filed at the PEC secretariat at the Court of Appeal, Abuja.
While Atiku’s application was dated March 1, Obi’s own was on March 2.
Both motions have the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and two others as respondents.
