Nigeria’s house of representatives has resolved to immediately appeal the controversial court judgment delivered by the Federal High Court in Umuahia, last Friday declaring Section 84(12) of the newly amended Electoral Act 2022 as illegal and unconstitutional.
Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila at the resumption of plenary on Wednesday described the move as a “desperate forum shopping” insisting that no one under any guise has the powers to delete any section of a constitutional process that was assented to by the President.
Gbajabiamila further noted that they were never joined in any legal matter from the start and haven’t even received the “controversial “court judgment, adding that it was also very surprising to see that the plaintiff in the matter was just a”meddlesome interloper”
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The speaker warned that not under any guise will he allow anyone ridicule the Legislature while asking the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami not to frustrate the legal process.
Justice Evelyn Anyadike, of the Federal High Court, Umuahia had held that Section 84(12) of the electoral Act was “unconstitutional, invalid, illegal, null, void and of no effect whatsoever ,while Consequently, ordering the Attorney General of the Federation to “forthwith delete the said Subsection 12 of Section 84 from the body of the Electoral Act.”
(Editor: Paul Akhagbemhe)
