Election Tribunal: More pressure on Tinubu as Obi sides with Atiku’s request for live telecast of proceedings

Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) have filed an application requesting the live telecast of proceedings at the ongoing presidential election petition tribunal at the Federal Court of Appeal in Abuja.

Obi's request is in line with the request of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, who had initially proposed the same request in a separate application.

Through his legal counsel Chris Uche, Obi appealed to the tribunal to grant permission to his request to allow Nigerians and electorates who participated in the 2023 general election to have access to the proceedings from the comfort of their homes and offices, Business Day reported.

As reported by Channels TV, the tribunal adjourned the pre-hearing session on Obi and the LP’s petition till Wednesday, May 17, at the instance of the petitioners.

The LP presidential candidate's attorney, Livy Uzoukwu, told the tribunal that further pre-hearing on the petition should be adjourned until later as they have pending processes to be filed and served.

Uzoukwu noted that it was a unanimous decision between the petitioner and the respondents, including the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Tinubu, to adjourn the matter till May 17.

Counsel to INEC, the APC, President-elect, and Vice President-elect Kashim Shettima confirmed the agreement.

Consequently, the tribunal adjourned the pre-hearing session till May 17 to enable the parties to decide on documents that are not in contention and the ones that are controversial.

Present at the proceeding were Obi and the Director General of the 2023 LP Campaign Organisation, Akin Osuntokun.