The Chairman of the Presidential
Election Petition Tribunal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa has rescued herself from
participating in adjudicating petitions challenging the re-election of
President Muhammadu Buhari.
Zainab, who is also the President
of the Appeal Court made the announcement on Wednesday in Abuja after the
tribunal had delivered ruling against an application challenging her membership
of the tribunal.
On why she stepped down, she
said: ”I have allowed the ruling on the application urging me to rescue my
membership of the tribunal to test the position of the law.
“Now that the application has
been dismissed on account of incompetence, I hereby announce my withdrawal from
the panel.
“The remaining four members of
the panel would remain while step would be taken to appoint my replacement’’,
she said.
Recall that the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) and its Presidential Candidate in the Feb.23 general
election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, had approached the tribunal to challenge
Bulkachuwa’s membership.
They prayed the tribunal to order
the discharge of the chairman of the tribunal.
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