The Court of Appeal in Lagos has voided a Federal High Court judgment that ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to electronically upload results of the governorship and state of assembly elections from the polling units directly to the Results Viewing Portal (IReV).
A three-man panel of the court held that the law gave INEC “very wide discretionary powers” to determine how it transmits or transfers election results.
The panel described the suit filed by the Labour Party (LP) at the lower court, which gave rise to the appeal, as an abuse of the court process.
On March 8, 2023, the Labour Party; its governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and 41 others obtained an order to compel INEC to obey the Electoral Act and its guidelines for the conduct of the elections, in a judgment delivered by Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court, Lagos.
