Our reporter/ The Presidential Election Petition Court on Monday dismissed the application for live coverage of its proceedings.
Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Haruna Tsammani, while dismissing the request, 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 for an order to allow the live coverage of the daily court proceedings on the case they brought against the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, following the February 25 election.
The Labour Party (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 and INEC opposed the application for a live broadcast of the proceedings of the election petition, describing it as an abuse of court process.
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