By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA – President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa is heading a five-man panel of Justices that have commenced hearing on petitions seeking to invalidate President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election.
Other members of the panel are Justices Abdul Aboki, Samuel Oseji, Joseph Ikyeghn and Peter Olabisi Ige.
The panel which is conducting its proceeding at the Court of Appeal Headquarters in Abuja, will determine merit of four separate petitions that are challenging the declaration of President Buhari as the legitimate winner of the February 23 presidential election.
In her inaugural speech, the Appeal Court President sought cooperation of all the parties, even as she urged all the lawyers to conduct themselves with decorum and high sense of responsibility so as to help the court to arrive at the justice of the case.
Justice Bulkachuwa maintained that all the parties would be accorded equal…
