The president of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa has revealed that the court resolved a total of 805 cases emanating from the 2019 general elections.
Speaking at the 2019 annual conference of the Court of Appeal Justices held in Abuja yesterday, Bulkachuwa also disclosed that the court delivered 4,007 other cases while 7,911 motions were disposed of during the year.
She said the 805 appeals arose from the various petitions filed by aggrieved contestants against the results declared in the general election.
She admitted that handling of the election cases was hectic as it took collective efforts of the justices for the cases to be disposed off to make the country’s democracy stronger.
Justice Bulkachuwa attributed the performance of the court to the reforms carried out on its rules and the practice direction, which are now giving speedy hearing to cases before the court.
She also stated that four justices of the court had been elevated to the Supreme Court bench.
On the yearly conference, she said it was put together for the justices to brainstorm and sharpen their skills having discovered training as vital part of development.
To enable the court to successfully clear the backlog of pending cases, Justice Bulkachuwa said four new divisions of the court would soon be opened.
She urged participants at the conference to take maximum advantages to be provided, adding that experts from various fields have been carefully selected to present papers on different topics.
In his remarks, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Muhammad Tanko Ibrahim, urged the appellate court justices to cooperate with one another, be truthful, hard-working and shun egoism in the discharge of their judicial functions.
With ThisDay report
