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BREAKING: Court Grants INEC’s Request To Reconfigure BVAS

The Presidential Election Petition Court sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja has granted the request of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System BVAS it used for the presidential election.

The Nation reports INEC had prayed the court to allow it to reconfigure the BVAS for the upcoming governorship election.

The court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices, held that preventing

The electoral umpire from reconfiguring the BVAS would adversely affect the forthcoming governorship and State Assembly elections.

It dismissed objections that the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to the request.

THE NATION

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