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May 20, (THEWILL) – The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting at the Appeal Court, Abuja, has fixed Monday, May 22, to deliver a ruling on the applications seeking live broadcast of its ongoing proceedings.
A five-member panel of the court led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, made this known after the court took arguments from lawyers to parties in the motion.
THEWILL reports that Atiku Abubakar, Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and his counterpart in the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, had filed separate applications along with their parties, seeking live telecast of the PEPC proceedings of their petitions filed against the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as the winner of the February 25 presidential poll.
While moving the application, lawyers to Atiku and Peter Obi have urged the court to grant their request in the interest of the public.
On their part, Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN) for INEC, Wole Olanipekun (SAN) for Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettma, and Adeniyi Akintola (SAN) for the APC moved their various counter affidavits and prayed the court to reject the application for being without merit and constituting a distraction to the court.
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