Court dismisses Atiku, Obi’s request for live broadcast of petition proceedings

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT has dealt a big blow to one of the requests of the Labour Party and the People’ s Democratic Party, PDP, in their suit contesting the Feb. 25th, 2023 Presidential Election results.

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Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar of the Labour Party have respectively dragged the nation’ s President- Elect and the nation’ s Electoral Commission, INEC to Court after the latter had announced the former as the winner of the 2023 Presidential Election after the former Lagos state Governor amassed over 8 Million votes.

In a report by THE GUARDIAN, the Chairman of the Presidential Election Petition Court, Justice Haruna Tsammani, has dismissed the application for live coverage of court proceedings. At the proceeding in Abuja on Monday, Justice Tsammani said the application by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) lacked merit.

In a unanimous decision, the panel held that the order sought by the petitioner was outside the scope of the petition, adding that televising of proceedings is not provided for in any law.

Recall that the APC, Tinubu and kashim Shettima, had opposed the call for live broadcast of the daily proceedings of the petitions filed by oppositions parties, on a ground that Court is not a stadium or theater for entertainment.

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