The Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate in the 2019 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, will on Thursday file a formal application before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal asking
for the withdrawal of the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, from the five-man tribunal on the grounds of likelihood of bias.
Uzoukwu made the meeting request shortly after lawyers announced appearance at the beginning of Wednesday’s proceedings. The agreement entitled Atiku and the PDP to two lawyers each, making a total of 10 lawyers that attended the meeting. Justice Bulkachuwa said since the matter was already in the public domain, the panel had decided to have the issue treated openly.
In its letter received in the Court of Appeal President’s office in Abuja, on May 9, the PDP had alleged that as the chairman of the five-man panel, Bulkachuwa would likely be biased in the handling of the tribunal’s proceedings because of her ties to family members belonging to the APC. Secondus and the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, attended Wednesday’s proceedings.
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