The Presidential Election Petition Court on Thursday heard the application by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to allow for the live televising of the ongoing election petition proceedings.
Parties to the petition adopted their processes and agreed that documents certified by the Independent Electoral Commission will be tendered without objections.
The PDP and Atiku through their counsel, Chris Uche, SAN, had prayed to the court for an order allowing the live broadcast of the proceeding due to the monumental importance of the case.
The petitioners argued that Nigerians being stakeholders have a right to have a real-time information about the election petition proceedings.
All the respondents to the petition namely INEC, the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, and the All Progressives Congress vehemently opposed the application.
Among other reasons, they contended that the court is not a circus, a film house or a theatre but for serious and solemn business.
Counsel for APC, Lateef Fagbemi, asked the court not to concede the request to turn the court into a Big Brother electoral series.
After hearing arguments from all parties, the court stood down for five minutes.
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