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The Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room has expressed their displeasure at the alleged plan by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to erase data captured by the the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) during the recent presidential election. The Situation Room is made up of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) working in support of credible and transparent elections in Nigeria numbering more than 70.
Nigeria's Presidential Election Petition Court, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, has granted the Independent National Electoral Commission permission to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System it used for the presidential election. The court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of Justices, held that stopping the electoral body from reconfiguring the BVAS would adversely affect the impending Governorship and State Assembly elections.