Chairman of the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC), Justice Haruna Tsammani and the other four Justices of the court, have unanimously dismissed the application for live coverage of court proceedings.
At the 2023 PEPC sitting in Abuja today Monday, the Justices said the application by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) lacked merit.
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, had filed an application on May 8, 2023 for an order to allow the live coverage of the daily court proceedings on the case they brought against the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, following the February 25, 2023 election.
The LP and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, followed suit with a similar application, asking that proceedings of the tribunal be televised.
However, a week later, Tinubu opposed the application for a live broadcast of the proceedings of the election petition, describing it as an abuse of court process.
