The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it will appeal a court order to allow two Nigerians to use their Temporary Voter Cards (TVCs) to vote in the governorship and state houses of assembly elections.
Two Nigerians filed a suit challenging INEC’s position that only a permanent voter card (PVC) can be used in an election. The presiding judge of the federal high court in Abuja, Justice Obiora Egwuatu, while delivering judgment said the applicants should be allowed to use their TVCs in the absence of the PVCs.
Egwuata also held that there was no portion of the law, both the 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Act, that states that it is only PVCs that could be used, but that the law under Section 47 provided for a voter’s card.
