Election Petition Tribunal: Atiku, PDP Petition Appeal Court President Bulkachuwa over Replacement Delay

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and its presidential candidate in the February 23 election, Atiku Abubakar have expressed worry over delay in the replacement of Zainab Bulkachuwa since she stepped aside from the five-man panel Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on May 22.

Leader of the PDP legal team, Liy Uzoukwu (SAN) said that they had detailed their concerns in writing to the President of the Court of Appeal stressing that letter has been “delivered at the President of the Court of Appeal’s office on Friday morning.”

: “I am not aware of any new development,’ Uzoukwu said. “We have not been served with any hearing notice. But we have written to the President of the Court of Appeal to remind her of her promise to bring in a replacement, having recused herself.  It is yet to be fulfilled. That is where we are.

“We are waiting to see what will happen, having done that.”

When asked if they were worried in the delay to appoint a replacement for Justice Bulkachuwa, he said: “Of course, we are bound to be.”

Until May 22, Justice Bulkachuwa was the head of the five-man panel of the Presidential Elections Tribunal. However, she withdrew her membership due to the allegation by PDP of her likely bias in the case since she had family ties with some top members of the All Progressives Congress