The candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party,  Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party, Peter Obi, respectively, were given orders to inspect the materials used for the last Saturday’s presidential election, but the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged the Presidential Election Petition Court to modify those orders.

The court had on March 3, granted leave to Atiku of the PDP and Obi of Labour Party to inspect election materials used by INEC to conduct the February 25 presidential election.

However, INEC in a motion on notice filed on March 4, is praying the court to vary the order which restrained it from tampering with materials used for the election, adding that it needed to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System for the next round of elections.

A source in the commission had told NAN that the application became necessary following an order restraining it from tampering with the information embedded in the BVAS machines until due inspection was conducted and Certified True Copies of them were issued.

The source added that the commission would require sufficient time to reconfigure the BVAS needed to conduct the election that would take place in the 36 states of the federation excluding the FCT.

Considering the number of BVAS required to conduct the election across the states, INEC needs to reconfigure the BVAS used for the February 25 elections and deploy them to polling units for the March 11  elections. technical team of the commission had to be deployed on time to start the reconfiguration of the devices, which had to be done one by one.

According  to the source the order was pertinent as not getting it could result to a postponement of the Saturday governorship and state houses of assembly elections”.