The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has declined to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from using the Smart Card Reader Machines for the presidential election holding tomorrow.
In a ruling this afternoon, Justice Ademola Adeniyi refused to issue an interim order of injunction stopping INEC from employing the technology for the presidential poll.
The court however summoned both the electoral body and the Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN, to appear before the court on April 24 to address it on the legality or otherwise of the use of the card readers for a general election.
Meanwhile, even though the court rejected the application which was filed by a Senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun state, Mr. Walihu Taiwo, it however stressed that if it eventually ascertains that the use of the card readers were illegal and unconstitutional, it will not hesitate to annul the outcome of the general election.
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