AN ABUJA Federal High Court has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to transmit results of the March 18 Governorship and House of Assembly elections electronically.

The court further ordered that the results of the election be transmitted in accordance with INEC regulations and guidelines.

Justice Obiora Egwuatu, the presiding judge, gave the order on Friday, March 17.

He also ordered the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System to upload a scanned copy of the form EC8A to the INEC Result Viewing Portal immediately after the completion of all the polling unit voting.

The judge equally ordered INEC to engage the services of independent, competent and reliable logistic companies who are non-partisans or known supporters of any political party to distribute electoral materials and personnel.

Egwuatu gave these orders while ruling on a motion ex-parte marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/334/2023.

The motion was filed by the Labour Party (LP) and Uduakobong Udoh, its governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom, and 13 state house of assembly candidates.

Moses Usoh-Abia, counsel to the applicants, had urged the court to direct INEC to comply with its regulations and guidelines, particularly provisions of clauses 37 and 38 on the conduct of elections.

He also asked the court to mandate the presiding officers of all polling units to conspicuously paste the publication of result posters EC460(E) at the polling units after completing the EC8A result sheets.