HeadlineElectoral Act: Deleting Section 84 (12) Still In Progress – Malami

Electoral Act: Deleting Section 84 (12) Still In Progress – Malami

March 23, (THEWILL) – The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has said the process of deleting section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act, 2022, is still on.

Malami’s remarks followed the position of the National Assembly to appeal the judgement that empowered him to delete the section from the new Electoral Act.

THEWILL reports that Justice Evelyn Anyadike of a Federal High Court, sitting in Umuahia, Abia State, had declared Section 84(12) as “unconstitutional, invalid, illegal, null, void and of no effect whatsoever and cannot stand as it is in violation of the clear provisions of the Constitution.”

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Briefing State House correspondents on the development on Wednesday, Malami said the execution of the court order was still in process.

Asked to give update on the implementation of the ruling, the AGF said: “My clear response arising there from, is the fact that truly there exist a court judgement. By the judgement, the court directed the Office of the Attorney General to take the necessary steps to delete the provision, which in essence implies that the provision should not form part of our laws.

“Whether it has been deleted, or has not been deleted, is indeed a function of agencies of government and associated relevant parastatals. But the true position of it in that respect, is the fact that government printers, and indeed Law Reform Commission among others, that are responsible for the codification and gazetting of our laws, are working naturally, hand in hand with the Office of the Attorney General for the purpose of ensuring that what goes into our laws are indeed in line with the provision of the law.

“So what I am saying in essence, it is indeed a work in progress against the background of the fact that the Law Reform Commission is involved statutorily, which is a parastatal under the Office of the Attorney General, is a party to the process of condification.

“The government printers, which is saddled with the responsibility of gazetting our laws on the request of the Office of the Attorney General is equally involved. And above all, as you rightly stated, the possibility of an appeal is equally there. So, what I am saying in effect is deletion of section 84 Subsection 12 is a work in progress and is being considered as such.”

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