An Umuahia, Abia State division of the Federal High Court, on Friday ordered the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, to without delay, delete Section 84 (12) of the amended Electoral Act.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Section 84 (12) says: “No political appointee at any level shall be voting delegate or be voted for at the Convention or Congress of any political party for the purpose of the nomination of candidates for any election”.
Justice Evelyn Anyadike asked Malami to remove that section immediately.
She held that Sections 66(1)(f), 107(1)(f), 137(1)(f) and 182(1)(f) of the 1999 Constitution already stipulated that government appointees seeking to contest elections are only to resign at least 30 days before the election.
The court, therefore, held that any other law that mandates such appointees to resign or leave office at any time before that was unconstitutional, invalid, illegal and void.
“Justice Evelyn Anyadike asked Malami to remove that section immediately.”
biafraud PEOPLE READY TOOLS AND ACCOMPLICES IN THE ABRACADABRA OF THE MAGIC WAND OF THE NIGERIAN LAND.
Hopefully, people can still recall the role of Arthur Nzeribe in scuttling the 1993 presidential election despite the constitutional provision stipulates the election could not be stopped by anything and anybody. A particular Kanu and less than 10 men, 1-million-man march.
And currently, an Ayandike of same extraction commanding the AG to DELETE a section of the Nigerian constitution knowing fully well that it is only possible or could only be done by a LEGISLATIVE act of amendment.
FEDERAL, NOT THE SUPREME COURT ORDERED AN AG TO DELETE SECTIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION. BRAZEN CRIMINAL ACT.