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By Ibraheem Hamza Muhammad, Abuja
The Chairman of the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC) Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, has dismissed the application by political parties for live coverage of court proceedings.
He made the dismissal in a ruling at Abuja the Court Holden at Court of Appeal on Monday in Abuja that the application by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) lacked merit.
It could be recalled that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),l at the 2023 election, Alhaji 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 his party has brought against the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, after the February 25th poll.
While the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Gregory Obi, followed suit with a similar application asking that proceedings of the tribunal be televised live.
Similarly, a week later, Bola Tinubu opposed the application for a live broadcast of the proceedings of the election petition Court, describing it as an abuse of court processes.
