Edo election: Tribunal Grants PDP To Inspect Electoral Materials

The Edo State Election Petitions Tribunal, on Tuesday, granted the People’s Democratic Party, PDP’s candidate in the September 28 governorship election in the state, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the go ahead to inspect electoral materials used during the election.

Ize-Iyamu had lost to the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate, Godwin Obaseki

But a three-man panel of judges led by Justice A. T . Badamasi, in Benin, the state capital, granted the ex-parte motion

During the hearing, PDP’s lawyer, Kingsley Obamogie, explained that the party’s application to assess electoral materials used in the election was in line with Section 151 of the Electoral Act, 2010, as amended.

Obamogie argued that the section empowered the party to institute an ex-parte motion for the tribunal to inspect all the electoral materials used for the election.

The three-man panel of judges, after studying the motion, granted PDP’s prayer and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to grant the opposition party access to materials used in the election.