{"id":95373,"date":"2022-05-27T09:21:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T08:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=95373"},"modified":"2022-05-27T09:21:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T08:21:53","slug":"electoral-amendment-act-2022-apex-court-reserves-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/electoral-amendment-act-2022-apex-court-reserves-judgment\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Amendment Act 2022: Apex Court Reserves Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1733965174605979626\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Supreme Court has reserved judgment in the suit filed by the President Muhammadu Buhari\u00a0 and Attorney-General of the Federation Abubakar Malami, to void the provisions of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act, 2022.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe court will announce a date to parties involved.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that on May 19, the apex court admitted an application filed by Rivers to be joined in the suit.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Musa Dattijo, who led the seven-member panel of the Justices of the apex court, allowed the joinder application that Rivers brought through the Speaker of its House of Assembly and its Attorney-General and adjourned hearing on the suit until May 26.<\/p>\n<p>The applicants told the court that they were opposed to the suit marked SC\/CV\/504\/2022, which originally had the National Assembly as the sole Respondent.<\/p>\n<p>President Buhari and Malami filed a suit at the Supreme Court, seeking an interpretation of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Amendment Act 2022.<\/p>\n<p>They are seeking an order of the apex court to strike out the section of the Electoral Act, saying it is inconsistent with the nation\u2019s Constitution.<\/p>\n<div id=\"m_1005705756686426222ymail_android_signature\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has reserved judgment in the suit filed by the President Muhammadu Buhari\u00a0 and Attorney-General of the Federation Abubakar Malami, to void the provisions of Section 84(12) of&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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