PDP Raise The Alarm Over APC Plot Bulkachuwa To Influence Ekiti, Osun Tribunals

Agency ReporterOctober 30, 2018

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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has accused the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of plotting to use the husband of the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, to influence the tribunals in Ekiti and Osun states which were constituted by her.

According to a statement by the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Prince Diran Odeyemi, in Osogbo, the recent ‘gift’ of the APC Bauchi North Senatorial ticket to Adamu Bulkachuwa, the husband of Justice Bulkachuwa, after he lost the primaries to Usman Abubakar Tuggar, was a pointer to that direction.

Usman Tuggar won APC senatorial primaries in six of the seven local government areas of Bauchi North, but the party was substituted to Mohammed Bulkachuwa who narrowly won only one local government (Katagum) by 7,263 votes to 6,278 to influence the tribunals in Ekiti and Osun state.

In total, Mr. Tuggar scored 71,508 votes while Mr. Bulkachuwa scored 16,680 votes.

But when the names of candidates for the 2019 national elections were released last week, it was Adamu Bulkachuwa that was named the APC senatorial candidate for the Bauchi North Senatorial District, the development that immediately sparked suspicion among political parties in the country.

Prince Diran Odeyemi, the PDP said: “Having won the governorship elections anyhow in the two states of Ekiti and Osun without properly covering its track, APC has resorted to using the judiciary to further circumvent people’s wishes for PDP to return to power in the two states.”

“We hope President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Bulkachuwa will read well the warnings signs and shun every poisoned bait cast at her by the badly fractured APC and the regime it handed Nigerians. She must continue to uphold the independence of the judiciary. We implore the National Judicial Commission, NJC, Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, the international community, amongst others to henceforth closely monitor the activities of Justice Bulkachuwa and pronouncements of Court of Appeal in order to guarantee the neutrality of our courts”, it said.

However, the APC in a statement by its Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Kunle Oyatomi, said the fact that the Appeal Court President is not sitting on the matter has destroyed PDP’s argument.