Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami says his office will honour and give effect to the Court judgment that struck down Section 84(12) in line with the dictates of the law and the spirit of the judgment.
This was contained in a statement by the media aid to the Attorney General, Dr Umar Gwandu in Abuja on Friday, March 18, 2022.
According to a statement from the Attorney General’s office, “The judgment of the Court will be recognized by the Government printers in printing the Electoral Act.
“The Act will be gazetted factoring the effect of the judgment into consideration and deleting the constitutionally offensive provision accordingly.
“The provision of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act 2022 is not part of our law and will be so treated accordingly.
“It is in line with the dictates of chapter 7, Part 4, Section 287 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) on enforcement of decisions that makes it a point of duty and obligation on all authorities and persons to have the judgment of the Federal High Court, among others, to be enforced.”
It would be recalled that a Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia Abia State South-East Nigeria, had on Friday, March 18, 2022, struck down Section 84(12) of the newly amended Electoral Act which President Muhammadu Buhari had written to the National Assembly to delete.
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The President had while signing the amended Electoral Act urged the National Assembly to delete the provision as it violated Constitution and breached the rights of government appointees.
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