Atiku Vs Buhari: Tribunal gets new chairman, shifts hearing to Tuesday

The presidential election petition tribunal sitting in Abuja has adjourned till Tuesday to hear six pending applications that were filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in relation to the petition challenging president Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election.

The development came on a day Justice Mohammed Garba of the Lagos division of the court of appeal, assumed leadership of the five-member tribunal

Justice Garba replaced the court of appeal president, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, who had on May 22, rescued herself from heading the panel, following a petition that was lodged against her by the PDP and its candidate, Atiku.

The petitioners had contended that it would be wrong to allow Justice Bulkachuwa whose husband and son are active card-carrying members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, which sponsored president Buhari’s election.