BREAKING: Tribunal dismisses, PDP, Atiku's application

By Dansu Peter 

An application by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP and it's presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for live broadcast of the tribunal's proceedings has been dismissed. 

The Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has dismissed the application by the Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for live televising of the court’s proceedings.

The court, in a unanimous ruling, held that the application was without merit, adding that televising court proceedings is not provided for in any extant law in the country.

Justice Tsammani, who read the lead ruling, held that the requirement that the court sits in public did not mean that it should sit in a stadium or in marketplace.