{"id":807,"date":"2023-03-08T17:07:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T17:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=807"},"modified":"2023-03-08T17:07:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T17:07:26","slug":"court-refuses-obis-request-to-stop-inec-from-reconfiguring-bvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/08\/court-refuses-obis-request-to-stop-inec-from-reconfiguring-bvas\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Refuses Obi\u2019s Request To Stop INEC From Reconfiguring BVAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The court of appeal has refused to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from reconfiguring the bimodal voter accreditation system (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/tag\/bvas\">BVAS<\/a>) ahead of the governorship and state assembly elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">In the ruling delivered on Wednesday, a three-member panel of the court of appeal led by Joseph Ikyegh, held that restraining the electoral commission would constrain INEC from conducting the March 11 elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">In an application, Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), had sought an order of the court \u201crestraining the 1st respondent (INEC) from tampering with the information embedded in the BVAS machines until the due inspection is conducted and certified true copies (CTC) of them issued\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Details later\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court of appeal has refused to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from reconfiguring the bimodal voter accreditation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}