Appeal Court Rulings and Electoral Reforms: Daniel Bwala Shares His Review on the Conflicting Decisions Made by Court of Appeal.

Spokesperson of Atiku Abubakar in the presidential campaign organization of 2023 general election, Daniel Bwala, shares his opinion and review on the appeal court rulings and electoral reforms.

Meanwhile, at his interview with Arise News, “The Morning Show”, where he said, “We have seen conflicting decisions from the court of appeal against PDP. Facts and cases may differ but the principle of law must be constant.”

In respect to the reforms and the way forward, he further elaborated the issue on “All Eyes On The Judiciary”, where he explains that the people tend to take that a person is trying to blackmail the judiciary which is not true, but instead, our hope now lies on how the judiciary would interprete from the supreme court.

In the same vein, he tried to point out the case between Plateau State and supreme court and later having to be a case between the supreme court and the court of appeal, however, having nothing to do with the sanctity and integrity of the Apex court itself because the supreme court would have to determine whether the judgement they delivered in presidential election tribunal is to be carried out by subordinate court in Nigeria because it is made clear that a decision by the final court is called a “settled law”. In other words, the supreme court would have to determine whether the court of appeal is above it or below them.

Moreover , in the House of Assembly, which gives room for the constitutional amendment and was open to some reforms from the Deputy Senate President for a bill which was sponsored by the national assembly and which some states knocked down, made provisions for pre-pre election, pre-election, and then the election tribunal. These bills were solely to prevent situations when a person wins an election and the court removes him for whatever reason.

In this case, whatever question that arose from the congress must be determined before primary starts up to the apex court that will have a judgement over it. Meanwhile, whatever happens before election tribunal must be finished before the election; what happens in the election must be determined by the election tribunal in respect to the electoral act.

Therefore, for these reforms to be effective, the INEC chairman must be changed.