Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja
on Monday stopped President Muhammadu Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation,
and the Senate President from tampering with the newly amended Electoral Act
2022.
The judge in a ruling on an ex-parte application by the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, agreed that the Electoral Act has become a valid
law and cannot be tampered with without following due process of law.
Ekwo agreed with Chief James Ogwu Onoja SAN, counsel to PDP,
that the proper place to challenge the validity of any existing law is a court
of competent jurisdiction.
Specifically, the court restrained all the defendants in the
suit from removing section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act or preventing It from
being implemented for the purpose of the 2023 general elections.
Further hearing in the matter has been fixed for March 21.
Details later.
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