The Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Friday told the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja that Aliyu Haidar Abubakar, son of the Presiden
t of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, campaigned for President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the February 23 presidential poll.
They therefore stated in a motion filed before the five-man tribunal that Justice Bulkachuwa’s close family ties to top APC members would hinder her from handling the proceedings of the tribunal without bias. “The Court of Appeal has more than 80 justices who are able and competent to participate in the hearing and determination of the extant petition in the absence of Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa.
They therefore sought “an order that Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, President of the Court of Appeal, and the presiding justice of the panel hearing petition numbered CA/PEPC/2019 be recused from further sitting or participating in the proceedings in this petition and be replaced by another justice of this honourable court to sit in her place to hear and determine the petition”.
Secondus and the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, attended Wednesday’s proceedings. Chief Wole Olanipekun led Buhari’s legal team, while Mr Yunus Usman led the INEC’s team, and Lateef Fagbemi APC’s team.
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