SUPREME COURT STRIKES OUT BUHARI, MALAMI’S SUIT ON ELECTORAL ACT

Written by on June 24, 2022

The Supreme Court has struck out the suit by President MUHAMMADU BUHARI and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), ABUBAKAR MALAMI seeking to invalidate the provision of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act 2022.

 

The apex court in a judgment on Friday by a seven-member panel headed by Justice MUSA DATTIJO MOHAMMED, was unanimous in holding that BUHARI, having participated in the making of the law by assenting to it, could not turn around to fault its provisions.

 

The court, which upheld the objections raised by the National Assembly and other defendants against the suit, declined to determine it on the merit but declared that the Supreme Court lacked the jurisdiction to hear it and that the suit was an abuse of court process.

 

Justice EMMANUEL AGIM, in the lead judgment, held that it was an attack on the democratic principle of Separation of Powers for the President to seek to direct/request the Legislature to make a particular law or alter any law.

 

 


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