A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Tuesday, called on the Appeal Court to reject a request by the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, seeking an order of court to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BIVAS) machines.
The court had issued the orders in the ruling it gave on Friday granting permission to Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi to inspect the sensitive materials used for the conduct of the February 25 presidential election.
Yakubu in his motion before the court said the order needed variation to enable it deploy the machines for the Saturday, March 11, 2023 Governorship and State House of Assembly elections.
But, Frank in a statement in Abuja, urged the Justices of the Appeal Court not to vary its orders nor grant INEC’s request to reconfigure the BIVAS machines.
He claimed that the request was a ploy by INEC to tamper with evidence against the substantive order of the court that barred the Commission from tampering with the BIVAS and other sensitive election materials yet to be inspected by Atiku and Obi.
He insisted that if the request of INEC is approved by the Court, then all necessary data needed to prove the massive rigging in the justconcluded presidential election would be lost as they would fraudulently and deliberately be deleted by the electoral umpire.