Presidential Election Tribunal Commences Sitting On Atiku’s Petition

The presidential election petition panel has commenced its
inaugural session.

Parties in the suit have already started arriving at the court
premises.

Some of them include lawyers to the petitioners Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar and his party the Peoples Democratic Party, lawyers to the
President and the All Progressive Congress and lawyers to the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Also present in court is Peter Obi, who was the
Vice-Presidential candidate of the PDP in the general
elections.

Chairing the opening session is the President of the Appeal
Court, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa.

Also on the panel is the chairman of the Presidential Election
Petition Panel, Justice Abdul Aboki, who is sitting at the
immediate right side of the president of the appeal court.

According to justice Bulkachuwa, there are over 700 petitions
from the just concluded election with Imo State having the highest
number with 78 petitions.

According to her, that is why the court has sent 6 panels to the
state.

She says the tribunal will act in strict adherence to the rule
of law.

She also says that the hearing will be on a day to day
basis.

The opening is done and it’s time for the call over which is
basically the mention of all the appeals before the tribunal.

The first case is that of the Hope Democratic Party, Ambrose
Awuru against President Mohammadu Buhari.

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