{"id":15512,"date":"2019-08-25T06:51:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T05:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/?p=15512"},"modified":"2019-08-25T06:53:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T05:53:01","slug":"election-petitions-farouk-bulkachuwa-to-know-fate-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/election-petitions-farouk-bulkachuwa-to-know-fate-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Election petitions: Farouk, Bulkachuwa, to Know fate soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Months after the conduct of the 2019 general elections,\ncandidates of various political parties who felt dissatisfied with the outcome\nof the results shifted their contest to election petition tribunal as enshrined\nin the electoral laws of Nigeria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Bauchi State, the trio of governorship, state and national\nassembly election petition tribunals were inundated with series of petitions\nfollowing completion of the conduct of the 2019 general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At inception, the tribunal in Bauchi State received 27\nelection petitions bordering on allegations of different forms of electoral\nfraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Seven of the\npetitions were for Senate, eight for the House of Representatives and 12 were\nin relation to election into the Bauchi State House of Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, while some of the petitions could not survive pre-trial\nstage others were struck out at the hearing stage for lack of diligent\nprosecution by the petitioners; or what some of the petitioners referred to as\n“witness betrayal” or on some occasion because of an\n“arrangee” voluntary withdrawal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For one reason or another, eight of the 27 petitions filed\nbefore the Tribunal were dismissed leaving the Court with 19 petitions to\nhear and determine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the cases drawing the attention of the public is the\ncase between Adamu Bulkachuwa, husband to the President of the Court of Appeal,\nZainab Bulkachuwa and Farouk Mustapha of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reasons for the noticeable public interest in the\npetition are obviously not farfetched. The first petitioner, Honourable Farouk\nMustapha has apparently won public sympathy because of the widespread public\nbelief that he was the candidate who actually won the said election, but was\nforcefully downsized because of the might of the APC being the ruling party\nduring the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senator Adamu Muhammad Bulkachuwa of the All Progressives\nCongress, APC, is considered by many political pundits as influential within\nthe judicial circle being the husband to Justice Zainab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 It is believed that the first respondent, Senator\nBulkachuwa who is in his eighties, a former ambassador of Nigeria to Canada in\nthe early eighties was allegedly anointed and imposed on the people of the\nBauchi-North Senatorial District by the Bauchi State APC  determiners of\nwho gets what, when and how particularly the immediate past former Bauchi State\nGovernor, Mohammed Abubakar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Governor had also filed a petition before a governorship\nelection petition tribunal for Bauchi State challenging victory of the\nincumbent governor Bala Mohammed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another point of attention is the believe that Justice\nZainab Muhammad Bulkachuwa may influence the outcome of the petition to favour\nher husband particularly that the matter may be brought before her court after the\nverdict of the trial court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some believed that the effort of the first petitioner to get\nback what he alleged as \u201cstolen mandate\u201d from the first respondent would be an\nexercise in futility considering the perceived connection of the first\nrespondent to the President of the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, the first petitioner, Honourable Farouk Mustapha had on several occasions while interacting with journalists reiterated his firm confidence in the Nigerian Judiciary and by extension the election petition tribunal particularly on the day the first respondent abruptly closed his defence, because the first witness he called refused to testify in\u00a0his favour.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As a believer in God, I am never discouraged,\nintimidated or hypnotised by the connection of the first respondent. \u201cInstead,\nI always remained convinced that I will get justice from the election petition\ntribunal for Bauchi State”, Farouk had said during an interview with\njournalists in Bauchi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would also be recalled that Farouk Mustapha and the NNPP had in their efforts to justify the alleged electoral frauds perpetrated in the Bauchi-North Senatorial District during the 2019 senatorial election invited several witnesses and tendered 745 exhibits<\/a> of more than 700 pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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