Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has assured that Parties seeking to examine the materials used during the Presidential and National Assembly elections to prosecute their election petition will have unhindered access to them.He spoke while hosting the legal team of the Labour Party (LP) and its candidate at the February 25 poll, Mr. Peter Obi at the commission’s Abuja National Headquarters, yesterday.Besides the Labour Party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), its standard bearer now President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, have approached INEC to grant them access to the materials.Yakubu told the Labour Party counsels that there were two levels of documents to be given to them, those available at the Headquarters of the Commission and those domiciled at its offices in the states.According to him, the accreditation records for the elections will be printed from the back-up server and certified by the commission before they are given to the parties.

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