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| INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu (R) meets the Labour Party’s legal team over the inspection of election materials in Abuja on Monday, March 13, 2023. Credit: Taiwo Adeshina |
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has assured the Labour Party (LP)’s legal team of the Commission’s readiness to provide all documents needed to prosecute its case at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
“INEC has nothing to hide. Documents available at the HQ will be given immediately,” Yakubu was quoted as saying in a statement on the Commission’s Facebook page.
“We are meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners today and we will discuss how other documents at the state level could also be made available to you speedily.”
The meeting with INEC officials was held at the Commission’s national headquarters to start the process of inspection of electoral materials used for the February 25 presidential election.
The head of the legal team, Dr Livy Uzoukwu, led 60 lawyers.