Live broadcast: PEPC dismantles Obi, Atiku's prayers

The application by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar to allow for a live broadcast of the court proceedings, was today destroyed by the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja.

The PEPC, presided over by Justice Haruna Tsammani dismissed the request which was made by the aggrieved parties and candidates of the PDP and the Labour Party as lacking in merit and rejected it.

The tribunal declared that allowing cameras in the courtroom is a major judicial policy that must be supported by the law.

While stating that no regulatory framework or policy direction permitted it to grant the application, the PEPC stated that “The court can only be guided and act in accordance with the practice directions and procedures approved by the President of the Court of Appeal.

“We cannot permit a situation that may lead to dramatization of our proceedings”.

The court further maintained that the request was not part of any relief sought by the petitioners and had no bearing on it.

It said that the request for a live broadcast would not add to the determination of the petitions, adding that the petitioners failed to establish how the live broadcast of the proceedings would advance their case.

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