Keyamo Reacts As Court Refuses Peter Obi’s Request To Stop INEC From Reconfiguring BVAS

The Spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, Festus Keyamo, has reacted after the court gave the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) a nod to reconfigure BVAS it used for the presidential election.

Naija News earlier reported that a three-member panel of Justices in a unanimous decision on Wednesday held that stopping the electoral body from reconfiguring the BVAS would adversely affect the forthcoming Governorship and State Assembly elections.

The court dismissed objections raised against INEC’s move to reconfigure all the BVAS by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi.

According to the court, allowing the objections by Obi and his party, would amount to “tying the hands of the Respondent, INEC”.

Besides, it noted that INEC had in an affidavit it filed before the court, assured that the accreditation data contained in the BVAS could not be tampered with or lost, as they would be stored and easily retrieved from its accredited back-end server.

It further observed that neither Obi nor LP controverted the depositions in INEC’s affidavit, stressing that since such averments were not challenged, it amounted to admission by the Applicants.

Reacting to the court judgement, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment said the law does not follow social media trends.

He further made a mockery of Peter Obi adding that law is not emotion.

He wrote: “You cannot stampede the judiciary by blackmail. Law does not follow trends on Social Media, mostly uninformed and illiterate. Law is not emotions. Law is law. INEC: 1 – Peter Obi:0″