2027: Avoid technicalities, treat electronic evidence rigorously, INEC charges tribunals

By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Professor Joash Amupitan SAN, has urged members of the 2027 Election Petition Tribunals to avoid technicalities that defeat substantive justice and to subject electronic evidence to rigorous scrutiny.

He also told them to keep firm control of their courtrooms and let “truth of the ballot prevail”.

According to the commission’s Daily Bulletin of Tuesday, Amupitan spoke on Monday in Abuja while delivering the Commission’s opening remarks at a three-day workshop for Justices of the Court of Appeal and members of the tribunals, held at the Body of Benchers Complex. The Court of Appeal organised th...