President Muhammadu Buhari, the Attorney General of the Federation, and the Senate President were all barred from interfering with the newly amended Electoral Act 2022 by Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday.
The judge agreed that the Electoral Act has become a genuine statute that cannot be tampered with without following due process of law in a judgment on an ex-parte motion by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Ekwo agreed with Chief James Ogwu Onoja SAN, counsel to PDP, that the proper place to challenge the validity of any existing law is a court of competent jurisdiction.
Specifically, the court restrained all the defendants in the suit from removing section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act or preventing It from being implemented for the purpose of the 2023 general elections.
Further hearing in the matter has been fixed for March 21.
Details later.