The National Assembly has resolved to petition the judgment of the Federal High Court in Umuahia, Abia State, that nullified Section 84(12) of the newly signed Electoral Act.
The resolutions followed two motions moved in the Senate and the House of Representatives by Senator George Sekibo and Sada Soli.
Members of the House also vowed to express their objection by taking Justice Evelyn Anyadike, who delivered the judgment before the National Judicial Council (NJC).
Justice Anyadike, in the judgment last week held that the Section of the Act was “unconstitutional.”
The controversial section states: “No political appointee at any level shall be a voting delegate or be voted for at the convention or congress of any political party for the nomination of candidates for any election.”
According to her, any other law that mandates such appointees to resign or leave the office at any time before that is “illegal.”
She consequently directed the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to delete the section from the Act because it violates the provisions of the 1999 Constitution.
In the motion titled: “Urgent need to appeal the judgment of the Federal High Court, Umuahia on Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act, 2022,” Sekibo wondered why a court would order that a law made by the National Assembly should be quashed.
