Atiku Abubakar, the presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 presidential
election, has petitioned the Court of Appeal over what he called a deliberate
ploy, to truncate the constitutional timeline of the presidential election
petition before the Tribunal.
This comes 11 days after the
President of the Court of Appeal and erstwhile Chairperson of the 2019
Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa,
disqualified herself from the Tribunal following the petition of the PDP and
Atiku/Obi legal team.
The PDP and Abubakar had based
their application, among other things, on the ground that Bulkachuwa is the
wife of Adamu Bulkachuwa, a prominent card-carrying member of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) and Senator-elect for Bauchi north senatorial
district, which is a political party involved in the suit.
Atiku has now in a letter through
his counsel dated May 31, 2019, urged the President of the Court of Appeal to
appoint a replacement forthwith.
According to him, the Tribunal
has a timeline to prosecute the petitions, adding that 76 days have already been
expended out of the 180 days allowed by law, as seen in Section 134 (2) and (3)
of the Electoral Act (2010 as amended).
The petition stated: “I am one
(Silas Joseph) of the Counsel in the Legal Team prosecuting the above Petition
on behalf of the Petitioners.
“I have the authority of the Lead
Counsel, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu (SAN) to write this letter. My Lord will recall that
on 22nd May 2019, the above mentioned Petition came up for a motion requesting
that my Lord to recuse herself from further presiding or participating in this
Petition. At the end of the proceedings, my Lord graciously recused herself on
personal grounds and promised to appoint anotherJustice to continue with the
Petition.”
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