A political activist and former Deputy Nationwide Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Tuesday, referred to as on the Enchantment Court docket to reject a request by the Nationwide Chairman of the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, in search of an order of court docket to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BIVAS) machines.
The court docket had issued the orders within the ruling it gave on Friday granting permission to Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi to examine the delicate supplies used for the conduct of the Presidential election.
Yakubu in his movement earlier than the court docket mentioned the order wanted variation to allow it deploy the machines for the Saturday March 11, 2023 Governorship and State Homes of Meeting election.
However Frank in an announcement in Abuja, urged the Justices of the Enchantment Court docket to not range its orders nor grant INEC’s request to reconfigure the BIVAS machines.
He mentioned that the request was a ploy to INEC tamper with proof towards the substantive order of the court docket that barred the Fee from tampering with the BIVAS and different delicate election supplies but to be inspected by Atiku and Obi.
He insisted that if the request of INEC is authorized by the Court docket, then all crucial knowledge wanted to show the large rigging within the simply concluded Presidential election could be misplaced as they’d fraudulently and intentionally be deleted by the Electoral umpire.
Frank who’s the United Liberation Motion for West Papua (ULMWP) Ambassador to East Africa and Center East, mentioned:
“I hereby urge the Enchantment Court docket to not range its orders nor accede to the request of INEC to reconfigure the BIVAS machines.
“The request of INEC in all its ramifications is anti-people, ungodly, preposterous, jejune and past creativeness.
“It’s a poly by INEC to cover and bury germane proof that may allow the assorted opposition events to show their election petition circumstances earlier than the courts.
“The Enchantment Court docket should realise that the result of this case would present whether or not it’s on the facet of the struggling and impoverished Nigerians or towards them.
“This can be a man who instructed the entire world that INEC was prepared for the 2 elections and that the BIVAS was already configured for the 2 election, why this sudden change of thoughts and request for reconfiguration if to not destroy key proof and conceal the evil the fee perpetrated through the Presidential and Nationwide Meeting election perpetually?
“The Enchantment Court docket justices ought to know that the result of the final Presidential election is most unlucky and painful and Nigerians are nonetheless attempting heal.
“Subsequently, Nigerians consider they are going to do substantial justice by rejecting the request of INEC to tamper with the BIVAS.
“The court docket should not by any means add salt to the harm already inflicted on the folks by INEC via a compromised election and manipulated outcomes.
“We insist that there’s completely no want for the Court docket of Enchantment to range its orders nor grant the request of INEC till after the BIVAS and different delicate election supplies used for the Presidential election have been digitally and forensically inspected by the aggrieved events as already ordered by court docket.”
Based on the Bayelsa-born political activist, “if there may be something that wants reconfiguration, it’s Yakubu’s mind and the INEC he presides over that carried out the worst election within the historical past of Nigeria and never the BIVAS machines used for the final election that are but to be inspected by aggrieved political events as ordered by the Enchantment Court docket.”