Ade Adesomoju, Abuja

The President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, has constituted a fresh panel to hear the appeals emanating from the disputes over the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party 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.

Our correspondent confirmed on Wednesday that three of the five pending cases have been assigned to the new panel.

As of the time of filing this report, it was not yet clear whether another panel will be constituted to hear the rest of the two cases or the two cases will later be assigned to the new Justice Saulawa-led panel.

This followed the Tuesday’s decision of the Justice Jummai Sankey-led panel disqualifying itself from further presiding over the cases.

The panel gave as its reason for withdrawing from the cases, a petition filed by a respondent in some of the cases, Mr. Biyi Poroye, accusing the panel members and Justice Bulkachuwa of having been bribed.


A letter by Justice Bulkachuwa addressed to Justice Salauwa and the two other members of the new panel was sighted by our correspondent on Wednesday.

The letter directed the new panel members to work out the dates of hearing in the cases assigned to them with the Presiding Justice of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal‎

The Justice Jummai Sankey-led panel on Tuesday returned the files of all the five pending cases to the President of the Court of Appeal, citing a petition by the Chairman of the Ali Modu Sheriff-led faction of the PDP in Ondo State, Mr. Biyi Poroye, accusing members of the panel of being compromise.

Johnnyessence:
They will still loose in another another appeal court again. Now they fail to address their issues amicably. Failure is really knocking and smelly in the house of pdp. Pdp has been defeated long time ago no hope for them. They are just jumping from one court to another without no concrete argument in their case. The court of jurisprudence recognized sheriff faction ,they are there going to court to seek relevance. No doubt pdp av been destroyed. They can not be repaired again. We av 24 days to go they are just wasting their time, money and energy in baseless argument that suppose to be settle amicably among themselves.

The new three-man panel is led by Justice Ibrahim Salauwa of the Calabar Division of the Appeal Court.

chuose:
Buhari and co want to grab as many PDP states as possible.

Dem don try Rivers fail, now dem wan use House of Assembly do.

Now dem dey try Ondo!

well God deliver us from this manic called Dullard1nho & his Islamic moves oh!

Pavarottii:

Please who and who are u referrinng to, to settle amicably?

jrusky:


Please why answering him or her, he or she must be "one of those".

How on earth will the INEC just said its one person or the other to be the right candidate

What right has INEC to dictate who is to run for a position under a party

Honestly Buhari and APC has really messed virtually everything up in Nigeria beyond repair this is so bad.

DSS doing EFCC work, DSS doing court job, EFCC doing police job, Civil defense doing Custom Job, Kai doing police Job, Sharia Police doing NLDEA job as a matter of fact even Daura is now the indirect president of Nigeria while Buhari is just the figure head, confusion everywhere no respect anywhere.

INEC has no right to say its Jimoh Ibrahim the right candidate al INEC need to do is to give PDP the ultimatum to produced one candidate within a time frame and if failed PDP will be disqualify from taken part in the election simple as that but to say its Jimoh Ibrahim please this is damn wrong and I sensed APC are at work to grab that state by force by fire but I trust the Ondo State people if they don't want you they don't want you if you try to force yourself on them you and your family may be a history in the face of the earth because they won't fight you alone but will fight your entire house to doom all of you fanning the fire of unrest in the name of APC or Jimoh whatever remember UPN and NPN if you are not born then ask your parent to tell how it went then I grew up to hear about the horror. God bless

chuose:
Buhari and co want to grab as many PDP states as possible.

Dem don try Rivers fail, now dem wan use House of Assembly do.

Now dem dey try Ondo!

well God deliver us from this manic called Dullard1nho & his Islamic moves oh!

Horsesmouth:

Only as a 1 party state can Nigeria move forward. If Saraki had stayed in PDP he wont be Senate president. He is doing very well there.
Let all the best politicians migrate to APC so that Nigeria can move forward.

Johnnyessence:
They will still loose in another another appeal court again. Now they fail to address their issues amicably. Failure is really knocking and smelly in the house of pdp. Pdp has been defeated long time ago no hope for them. They are just jumping from one court to another without no concrete argument in their case. The court of jurisprudence recognized sheriff faction ,they are there going to court to seek relevance. No doubt pdp av been destroyed. They can not be repaired again. We av 24 days to go they are just wasting their time, money and energy in baseless argument that suppose to be settle amicably among themselves.

jrusky:


Please why answering him or her, he or she must be "one of those".

How on earth will the INEC just said its one person or the other to be the right candidate

What right has INEC to dictate who is to run for a position under a party

Honestly Buhari and APC has really messed virtually everything up in Nigeria beyond repair this is so bad.

DSS doing EFCC work, DSS doing court job, EFCC doing police job, Civil defense doing Custom Job, Kai doing police Job, Sharia Police doing NLDEA job as a matter of fact even Daura is now the indirect president of Nigeria while Buhari is just the figure head, confusion everywhere no respect anywhere.

INEC has no right to say its Jimoh Ibrahim the right candidate al INEC need to do is to give PDP the ultimatum to produced one candidate within a time frame and if failed PDP will be disqualify from taken part in the election simple as that but to say its Jimoh Ibrahim please this is damn wrong and I sensed APC are at work to grab that state by force by fire but I trust the Ondo State people if they don't want you they don't want you if you try to force yourself on them you and your family may be a history in the face of the earth because they won't fight you alone but will fight your entire house to doom all of you fanning the fire of unrest in the name of APC or Jimoh whatever remember UPN and NPN if you are not born then ask your parent to tell how it went then I grew up to hear about the horror. God bless