I Didn’t Order Senate To Remove Section 84(12), Buhari Tells Court

I Didn’t Order Senate To Remove Section 84(12), Buhari Tells Court; President Muhammadu Buhari has told a Federal High Court in Abuja that he didn’t order the Senate to remove the contentious Section 84 (12) from the amended Electoral Act, 2022.

Contrary to the claims of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a suit introduced against him and 12 others on the Electoral Act, the President said he only expressed reservations and enterprises in respect of the aspect of the Electoral Act.

His position was contained in acounter-affidavit filed at the Federal High Court in the nation’s capital at the case of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.

In their commoncounter-affidavit, President Buhari and Malami-a Elderly Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), debunked the claims by the main opposition party in the suit.

AGF made sense of that the President, on February 25, 2022, gave legitimate, full, and unequivocal consent to the altered Electoral

The defendants averred that the claims of PDP in its suit against them on the Electoral Act were completely false and replete with gross fables aimed at misleading the court to give judgment against them.

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Besides, they claim that a Federal High Court in Abia State had in March struck down the section and ordered that it should be deleted bang for being inconsistent with the Constitution.

Both defendants said that the National Assembly and PDP have since appealed the judgment, adding that it was only the Court of Appeal that could restore the section into the Electoral Act and not a high court.

Averring that the PDP suit has come academic and constituted an abuse of the court process on the strength of the pending Court of Appeal matter, the President and the AGF asked the court to dismiss the suit.