Adamu Garba Reacts To Court Ruling On BVAS Reconfiguration

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adamu Garba, has reacted to the court ruling that granted the request of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) used for the just-concluded presidential election.

Recall that the Appeal Court in a unanimous decision on Wednesday rejected the request of the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to stop INEC from reconfiguring all the BVAS used in the February 25 election.

The court held that stopping the electoral body from reconfiguring the BVAS would adversely affect the forthcoming Governorship and State Assembly elections.

According to the court, allowing the objections by Obi and his party would amount to tying the hands of the respondent (INEC).

It also 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.

The court held that neither Obi nor LP controverted the depositions in INEC’s affidavit, stressing that since such averments were not challenged, it amounted to an admission by the applicants.

Taking to his Twitter account to react to the court judgement on Wednesday, Garba said the court has done the needful by denying the request of the LP flagbearer.

He wrote: “The Court has done the needful!”

The Court has done the needful!

— Adamu Garba II (@adamugarba) March 8, 2023