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    Court Declared Section 84 (12) of the Amended Electoral Act Illegal

    Xpariso MediaBy Xpariso MediaMarch 18, 2022Updated:March 19, 2022No Comments3 Mins Read
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    The Federal High Court in Umuahia, Abia State on Friday declared Section 84 (12) of the amended Electoral Act illegal and ordered the Attorney General of the Federation to delete the section.

    President Muhammadu Buhari had written the National Assembly asking them to delete the section as it would deprive political appointees of their right to vote and be voted for.

    Justice Evelyn Anyadike, delivering judgement on the matter said political appointees could only resign 30 days to election.

    She emphatically said the section was unconstitutional, invalid, illegal, null, void and of no effect whatsoever and ought to be struck down as it could not when it is in violation of the clear provisions of the Constitution.

    In the suit marked FHC/UM/CS/26/2022, the judge held that Sections 66(1)(f), 107(1)(f), 137(1)(f) and 182(1)(f) of the 1999 Constitution already stipulated that appointees of government seeking to contest elections were only to resign at least 30 days to the date of the election.

    She stated that any other law mandating such appointees to resign or leave office at any time before that was unconstitutional, invalid, illegal null and void to the extent of its inconsistency to the clear provisions of the Constitution.

    Emeka Ozoani, Plaintiff’s counsel told newsmen that that by this judgment, the National Assembly was not required to further make any amendments to the section.

    The finality of the judgement was that Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act was no longer in existence or part of the Electoral Act.

    The Judge thereafter ordered the Attorney General of the Federation to forthwith delete the said Subsection 12 of Section 84 from the body of the Electoral Act, 2022.

    Recall that last week, the senate voted against removal of the removal of the section from the electoral act, despite the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan given them reason why the section should be expunged.

    Senators voted overwhelmingly against the Bill to stop it from passing second reading.

    The move to reject the Bill was signalled by a call from Senator Aliero for it to be stepped down after the Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, moved a motion for the bill to be read a second time.

    Aliero, who came under a point of order, drew the attention of his colleagues to the provision of Rule 52(5) of the Senate Standing Order.

    Order 52(5) provides: “Reference shall not be made to any matter on which a judicial decision is pending, in such a way as might in the opinion of the President of the Senate prejudice the interest of parties thereto.”

    The Kebbi Central Lawmaker, therefore, advised the upper chamber to step down consideration of the bill pending the vacation of an order made by the Federal High Court, Abuja.

    “Going ahead to consider the bill obviously will mean that we are disrespecting that order, and this is an institution of the Senate – the symbol of Nigeria’s lawmaking body.

    “We should not be seen to be disobeying the court order. No matter how bad that court order is, we should respect it,” Aliero said.

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