The All Progressives Congress (APC), has barred all lawyers defending the party from speaking to the press proceedings from the ongoing presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC)
One of the APC’s lawyers, Adeniyi Akintola (SAN), informed the PEPC that no lawyer in their team is allowed to speak to the press over the ongoing proceedings.
Akintola was speaking when the presiding justice of the court, Justice Haruna Tsammani advised all the petitioners to reduce the number of lawyers in their teams so as to give more room to members of the public.
Akintola said also that any lawyer who does that would be expelled from the team.
“My lord, if you observe none of our lawyers do that, anything said here remains here,” he said.
He also told the PEPC that there are 38 Senior Advocates of Nigeria and other lawyers in the team who have been streamlined and every lawyer knows the week they would attend the proceedings.
Earlier, lead counsel to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Atiku Abubakar, Chris Uche (SAN), told the court that the PDP’s legal team would streamline their legal team in line with the request.
He, however, said the period of election petitions affords lawyers a great opportunity to learn the practice procedure in election petitions.
