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Cross River: INEC fails to produce result sheet at Tribunal

Published by The Nation on Thu, 23 May 2019


The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has told the Election Petition Tribunal in Cross River State that they were unable to produce copies of election result sheets claiming they were destroyed during the election.The Tribunal had on May 6 granted an order for the candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the Obubra/Etung House of Representatives election, Mr Innocent Ovat, to inspect the smart card readers and other relevant materials that were deployed in each polling unit by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) during the polls.Ovats petition with suit number EPT/CAL/HR/12/2019 has himself as the first petitioner and the ADC as the second. Mr Mike Etaba, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and INEC were first, second and third respondents respectively.The order which followed a motion ex-parte also compelled and directed the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state to forthwith produce, provide and release to the petitioners, for their own use in this petition, certified true copies of the printout of data of accredited/verified voters of each polling unit as recorded by the smart card readers deployed for the election to the membership of the House of Representatives of Obubra/Etung Federal Constituency.Other materials which the Tribunal ordered INEC to release to the petitioner include the certified true copies of Form EC 8A of all the polling units/voting points in Etung and Obubra local government areas.But INECs lawyer, Henry Ituen, informed the Tribunal that the result sheets of the said election were not available as they were destroyed in the field in the course of the said election held on 23rd February 2019.Read Also;Tension in Bayelsa INEC over alleged arrest of REC, othersThe petitioners lawyer, Offiong O. Offiong, informed the Tribunal at the pre-hearing session that the INEC is in contempt of the orders of the Tribunal as they have failed to comply with the orders of the Tribunal which, amongst others, compelled and directed them to release and give to the petitioners, result sheets and other vital documents of the election.The Tribunal asked INECs lawyer if he had pleaded the excuse about the result sheets in the record of his submissions in court, which he answered in the affirmative.The Tribunal then concluded the pre-hearing and adjourned for the commencement of the hearing.
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