BREAKING NEWS, Judiciary
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JUSTICE Zainab Bulkachuwa, president of the Court of Appeal, has constituted a fresh panel to hear the appeals emanating from the disputes over the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of the Ondo State governorship election slated for November 26.
The new three-man panel is led by Justice Ibrahim Salauwa of the Calabar Division of the Appeal Court.
This followed the Tuesday’s decision of the Justice Jummai Sankey-led panel disqualifying itself from further presiding over the cases.
The panel said the decision was based on a petition filed by Biyi Poroye, a respondent in some of the cases before it, accusing the panel members and Bulkachuwa of having been bribed.
The letter addressed to Justice Salauwa and the two other members of the new panel, enjoined the panel to work out dates of hearing.
The Justice Jummai Sankey-led panel on Tuesday, November 1, returned the files of all the five pending cases to the president of the Court of Appeal, citing a petition by Ali Modu Sheriff-led, a faction chairman of the PDP, and Poroye, accusing members of the panel of being compromised.
— Nov 2, 2016 @ 18:30 GMT
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