Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) candidate for president in the election on February 25, has asked the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) for permission to question the information and communication technology (ICT) expert of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
In two separate motions argued on his behalf by Mr Patrick Ikweto, SAN, Obi sought to know the quality of the ICT experts deployed in the use of technology for the conduct of the election.
Obi and his party prayed the court to compel INEC to supply them with names and profiles of ICT personnel that handled the technological aspects of the election.
They posed 12 questions to be forwarded to the electoral body for answers so as to aid him and LP in establishing their allegations of poor conduct, especially malpractices, in the conduct of the election.
He claimed that the request, if granted, would assist him in the effective presentation of his petition challenging the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as winner of the election.
However, INEC, represented by Mr Kemi Pinhero, SAN, objected to Obi’s bid to subject his client to interrogation through what he described as incompetent applications.