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The Minister of Justice and Attorney General to the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami has vowed that based on Court judgment on Friday, the offensive part of Section 84(12) will be deleted and gazetted immediately.
TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) recalls a Federal High Court sitting in Umuahi had ordered that the offensive part of Section 84 (12) should be expunged from the amended Act.
Section 84(12) as amended had included that all political appointees must vacate three months from office before vying for any elective position in Nigeria.
Immediately after the judgment, Malami in a statement on Monday declared that:
“The office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice will accordingly give effect to the Court judgment in line with the dictates of the law and the spirit of the judgment.
“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.
“This 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.