Appeal court disposes 805 cases on 2019 elections – Bulkachuwa

The president of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Adamu
Bulkachuwa, on Thursday revealed that a total of 805 cases that
emanated from the 2019 general elections had been successfully
disposed off by the appellate court.

Justice Bulkachuwa said the 805 appeals arose from the various
petitions filed by aggrieved contestants against the results
declared in the general elections.

Speaking at the 2019 annual conference of the Appeal Court
justices held in Abuja, Justice Bulkachuwa showered encomiums on
his colleagues on the Appeal Court bench for their hard work and
resilient during adjudications of the election cases.

The Appeal Court president at the conference attended by Chief
Justice of Nigeria, Muhammad Tanko Ibrahim, admitted that handling
of the election cases was so hectic, adding that it took collective
efforts for the cases to be disposed off to make the country’s
democracy stronger .

Reviewing the performance of the court in the outgoing year,a
the Appeal Court president announced that a total of 4,007
judgements were delivered while 7911 motions were disposed off
during the period.

She attributed the performance of the court to the reforms
carried out on its rules and the practice direction which are now
giving speedy hearing to cases before the court.

As a result of hard work of Justices of the court, Justice
Bulkachuwa disclosed that four justices of the court have been
elevated to the Supreme Cosssurt bench.

On the yearly conference, she said it was put together for the
justices to brainstorm and sharpened their skills having discovered
training as vital part of man development.

To enable the court successfully cleared the backlog of pending
cases, Justice Bulkachuwa, announced that four new divisions of the
court will soon be opened.

She appealed to the Appeal Court justices participating in the
conference to take maximum advantages to be provided, adding that
experts from various Fields of the legal profession have been
carefully selected to present papers on different topics.

The CJN in his brief remarks at the conference, urged the
appellate court justices to corporate with each other, be truthful
and hard-working, shun egoism in the discharge of their judicial
functions.

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