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and Peter Obi, the presidential candidate, have refused to pay the N1.5 million demanded to access documents they are requesting.
Mahmoud was responding to claims by Levy Uzoukwu, counsel to the party and its candidate, that the commission has refused to release necessary documents requested by them to present as evidence in the suit challenging the outcome of the presidential election.Uzoukwu told the five-member panel of the court led by Haruna Tsammani, that INEC “stubbornly refused to produce 70 percent of the electoral documents that were requested”.
For Sokoto state, Uzoukwu said the INEC officials demanded N1.5 million fee to process the documents.“A typical example is that of Rivers state, where the resident electoral commissioner boldly told us they do not have any form EC8A to give us,” the senior advocate said. He said the LP was given some electoral documents in Rivers, “but they insisted on collecting all the documents that were required”.The INEC counsel also said the representatives of the petitioners staged a walkout on the second day.
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