BREAKING: Court Grants INEC Permission to Reconfigure BVAS for Gov Election

The tribunal noted that INEC had in an affidavit assured that the accreditation data contained in the BVAS could not be tampered with or lost. The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has granted the request of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) which it used for the presidential election. In a unanimous decision on Wednesday by a three-member panel of justices, the tribunal held that stopping the electoral body from reconfiguring the BVAS would adversely affect Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections. The…

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