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  • Peter Obi arrives in Abuja for Presidential Election Tribunal

    Peter Obi arrives in Abuja for Presidential Election Tribunal

    Peter Obi, who is running for president as a candidate for the Labour Party in the presidential election that will take place on February 25, has just arrived at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja.

    On Monday, the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal began the pre-hearing of all of the petitions filed before it by various opposition parties seeking to overturn the election of Bola Tinubu as president-elect. The opposition parties’ petitions argued that Tinubu should not have been elected.

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    Obi, who finished in third place in the race for president, petitioned the court to overturn the results of the election on the grounds that the president-elect and the vice president-elect, Kashim Shettima, did not meet the requirements necessary to be eligible to run for office.

  • Tribunal: Atiku Takes Bold Step Regarding Media Coverage of Court Proceedings

    Tribunal: Atiku Takes Bold Step Regarding Media Coverage of Court Proceedings

    In a move that will excite many Nigerians, particularly those who have criticized the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for declaring Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the president-elect, Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), wants the soon-to-be-launched court proceeding challenging the outcome of the 2023 presidential election to be televised.

    To accomplish this, Atiku filed a request for an order allowing live coverage of daily court proceedings.

    According to reports, his legal team, led by Chris Uche, SAN, specifically requested “an order directing the Court’s Registry and the parties on modalities for admission of Media Practitioners and their Equipment into the courtroom.”

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    According to him, the case has piqued the interest of Nigerians from all 36 states of the federation, as well as the international community.

    In part, the motion stated:

    “With the enormous and tremendous technological advances and developments in Nigeria and beyond, including this court’s current trend towards embracing electronic procedures, virtual hearings, and electronic filing, a departure from the rules to allow regulated televising of the proceedings in this matter is consistent with the maxim that justice must not only be done but must be seen to be done.”