The senate president had asked the tribunal through a motion that he would not get fair hearing under
the chairman of the tribunal, Justice Danladi Umar.
Erukoro then referred the tribunal to the written address of the prosecution where they, according to him admitted that
the Chairman of the tribunal made the statement.
In a more than three - hour unanimous judgment delivered by
the Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Nuhu Galandanchi, the tribunal dismissed the petition of Sen.Julius Ucha for lacking in merit.
A week before a substantive hearing, Slovenia's lawyers (Allen & Overy (A&O)-RRB- wrote to the secretary of the tribunal to notify the list of persons attending, which included a QC (the QC) from the same chambers as
the chairman of the tribunal (the chairman).