The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the recently concluded presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, have requested permission for live coverage of the daily court proceedings in their case against the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, which begins today.
Atiku, who is a two-time presidential candidate of the PDP, stated that the case was a matter of national concern and public interest, involving citizens and electorates in the 36 states of the federation who participated in the just concluded presidential polls.
Atiku's legal team led by Chris Uche, SAN, specifically applied for an order directing the court's registry and the parties on modalities for admission of media practitioners and their equipment into the courtroom.
The PDP and Atiku also prayed the court to withdraw the Certificate of Return issued to Tinubu by the ruling All Progressives Congress, by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Tinubu, in a preliminary objection entered before the court, described Atiku as a consistent serial loser that had since 1993, crisscrossed different political parties in search of power, and queried the legal competence of petitions seeking to invalidate his election victory.
Tinubu was declared the winner of the presidential election after scoring a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat Atiku, who polled a total of 6,984,520 votes, and Obi, who came third with a total of 6,101,533 votes.
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