The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has tabled Bimodal Voters Accreditation (BVAs) Machine before the Edo State governorship election tribunal in Abuja.
Anthony Itodo, a senior technical officer in INEC’s ICT department, who showed up before the court on subpoena, given by the Tribunal on January 9, made known to the Tribunal that he brought a total of 148 BVAs gadgets from 133 polling units.
Counsel for the PDP, Robert Emukpoeruo, informed the tribunal that the actual numbers of the machines should be confirmed because of the number difference.
Itodo, in any case, added that some of the polling units had two BVAs devices.
In their entries, counsel for Lead Representative Monday Okpebolor, Onyechi Ikpeazu and Emmanuel Ukala for the APC, focused on the fact that there was no compelling reason to stretch the BVAs machines issue out of proportion.
In a bid to make clear the issue, counsel to INEC, Kanu Agabi, affirmed to the tribunal that although there were 151 units, only 148 of them requested for the BVAs and only 148 related to the election.
Emukpoeruo then applied for the BVAs machine to be tendered as evidence to the tribunal, which was objected to by the defendants.
The panel, nonetheless, conceded them as evidence.
