The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has filed a suit at the presidential election petition tribunal in Abuja over the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari at the election held on February 23, 2019.
Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was declared winner of the contest by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
He defeated PDP’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
PDP and its candidate have since rejected the verdict of INEC, saying that the election was fraught with irregularities.
It threatened that it would challenge the result in court.
In fulfilment of the threat, PDP, on Tuesday filed a suit , before the presidential election petition tribunal.
In the suit filed by its counsel, Chris Uche, PDP sought the leave of the tribunal to enable it inspect the materials used for the election.
They include the voters register, the smart card reader machines and ballot papers.
PDP requested that the tribunal compel INEC to allow it scan and make photocopies of the documents used in the election.
The requests were to make PDP point out the alleged electoral malpractices carried out during the election.
