An Abuja Federal High Court, has restrained anybody from tampering with the recently- signed into Law Amended Electoral Act, 2022.
Justice Inyang Ekwo ruled in an ex-parte motion brought by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday, March 7, 2022. He stopped President Muhammadu Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, the Senate President and the Speaker, House of Representatives, from tampering with the newly amended Electoral Act 2022.
Ruling on the PDP application inyang agreed that the Electoral Act having become a valid law cannot be tampered with without following due process of law.
Ekwo was on the same page with the Counsel to the PDP, James Onoja, SAN, that the proper place to challenge the validity of any existing law is a Court of competent jurisdiction.
He, therefore, restrained the defendants from removing section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act or preventing it from being implemented for the purpose of the 2023 general elections.
He fixed further hearing on March 21, 2022.
The PDP had in the suit, FHC/ABJ/CS/247/2022 dragged the defendants, including the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to Court, over the plan to tampering with the already signed-into-law amended Electoral Act 2022.
