The Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar arrived the Presidential Election Petition Court Thursday (today), where he is challenging the outcome of the 2023 presidential election.
In his company are Liyel Imoke, the former governor of Cross River State, Babangida Aliyu, former governor of Niger State and Uche Secondus, former National Chairman of the PDP.
In today’s proceedings, the court is expected to hear Atiku’s application, pushing for live broadcast of the day to day proceedings regarding his petition.
Specifically, they are praying the court 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 application filed on their behalf by their team of lawyers led by Chief Chris Uche, SAN, is predicated amongst other grounds that: The matter before the Honourable Court is a dispute over the outcome of the Presidential Election held on 25th February 2023, a matter of national concern and public interest, involving citizens and voters in the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, who voted and participated in the said election; and the International Community as regards the workings of Nigeria’s Electoral Process”.
According to Atiku, “being a unique electoral dispute with a peculiar constitutional dimension, it is a matter of public interest whereof millions of Nigerian citizens and voters are stakeholders with a constitutional right to receive.”
