Nigeria, June 3 -- The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Court of Appeal to timeously replace its president, Zainab Bulkachuwa, in the presidential panel to avoid a delay in the prosecution of their petition.

The PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, are challenging the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari as winner of the just concluded presidential elections in Nigeria.

The opposition party had accused Mrs Bulkachuwa of having the likelihood of bias, causing the Court of Appeal President to quit as head of the election tribunal on May 22.

In a letter from the head of the PDP's legal team, Levy Uzoukwu, the party is asking the court to avoid further delays in the hearing of the petition by replacing Mrs...