Breaking News; Tribunal Rejects PDP,LP Suit For Live Broadcasting Of Tribunal Proceedings

The chairman of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Justice Haruna Tsammani has dismissed the Abia f the people’s Democratic Party PDP and Labour Party , for the live broadcast of the tribunal proceedings.

At the 2023 Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT) sitting in Abuja on Monday, the justice 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.

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The Justices ruled that televising of the proceedings have no relevance to the petition, and it’s also not rooted in any of our laws

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 opposed the application for a live broadcast of the proceedings of the election petition, describing it as an abuse of court process.