Lawyer sues INEC over failure to electronically transmit poll results
•Seeks nullification of presidential, NASS elections A legal practitioner, Mr. Bob James, has instituted an action against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over its alleged failure to electronically transmit results of the Presidential and National Assembly elections that held on February 25, from polling units to its IReV portal. The plaintiff, in the suit he lodged before the Federal High Court in Abuja, cited INEC and the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, as defendants. In the sole issue he set out for the court to determine, the plaintiff argued that the electoral body had a statutory duty to upload electronically on its portal, results of the Presidential and National Assembly elections "immediately" elections ended at every polling unit across the country. Placing reliance on Section 60 of the Electoral Act 2022 and section 38 (1) of INEC's Regulations, the lawyer prayed the court to determine whether the "failure or refusal to uplo...