Labour Party Campaign Council Gives Update On Inspection Of Electoral Materials

The Labour Party Campaign Council has disclosed that progress is being made in the ongoing inspection of electoral materials by its lawyers at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The spokesman for Obi-Datti PCC, Yunusa Tanko on Tuesday disclosed that the party’s legal team had started gathering some relevant information from the materials supplied.

According to him, there is progress because the team has started collecting some relevant documents at the INEC office.

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On Monday the Labour Party promised to protest at all INEC offices nationwide if the commission does not grant it’s legal team access to the electoral materials used for the presidential and national assembly election.

However the party’s meeting on Monday with the Chairman of INEC Prof. Mahmood Yakubu yielded positive results as the commission granted access for the inspection.

Yakubu promised that the commission would give the legal team access to the materials and give them schedule of how the inspection should go.

Giving updates on how far the inspection has gone, Tanko told The Punch that , “Of course, we are having some level of progress. No matter how the case may be, at least, we have started collecting some documents from INEC, which will help our case. The situation of Nigeria is such that if anybody lies, he will look for another lie to cover it tomorrow. By the third day, he must get another to defend himself. In the process of looking for falsehood to cover up, you will make mistake and the truth will come out. It is a clear-cut decision. Isn’t it then better to come out and say the truth in order to sleep well after that?

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“If I can use the words of the INEC chairman, he said ‘We will give you a schedule of how we want to completely conduct this particular process.’ It is not a one-off thing. But he promised that he will give us all the support we require for us to prosecute our case. That was exactly his words that I just used.