A similar plea had been submitted to the tribunal by the PDP, who claimed that the international community was interested in Nigeria’s electoral process.
In order to request a live broadcast of its proceedings, the Labour Party and Peter Obi, its presidential candidate in the general elections of 2023, have applied to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT).
The PEPT started hearing appeals against Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s election victory on Monday, May 8, 2023, at the Appeal Court in Abuja.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INECannouncement )’s of Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election was being contested by a total of five opposition parties.
The Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Labour Party are left to continue the struggle after two of the petitioners, the Action People’s Party (APP) and the Action Alliance (AA), withdrew their accusations against the President-elect.
On the third day of the trial, May 10, 2023, Obi and his supporters urged the judge to permit media outlets to broadcast the case live to Nigerian and international audiences.
This comes after Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate, who asked the court to allow hearings to be broadcast live on the first day of proceedings.
A particular request for “An order directing the Court’s Registry and the parties on modalities for admission of Media Practitioners and their Equipment into the courtroom” was made in the motion submitted by the former vice president through his legal team, which Chris Uche, SAN, led.
The attorney for Obi, Livy Uzoukwu, requested that the tribunal postpone further prehearing on the petition until a later time because documents still need to be submitted and served.
