Atiku and the PDP in an application dated May 5, were specifically praying the Tribunal 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, was predicated on amongst other grounds, 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”.
They contended that being a unique electoral dispute with a peculiar constitutional dimension, it was a matter of public interest whereof millions of Nigerian citizens and voters are stakeholders with a constitutional right to receive.
