The Supreme Court has reserved judgement in a suit filed by President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation, seeking an interpretation of Section 84 (12) of the electoral act, 2022.
The seven-man panel led by Justice Mohammed Dattijo says the date The Apex Court arrived at this conclusion after taking arguments from parties and adopting their processes.
In the suit, the defendants were the National Assembly, Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, and the Attorney General of Rivers State, on account of this the NBA insisted it was to represent the interest of Nigerians by joining the suit.
Counsel to the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly and Attorney General of the State, Emmanuel Ukala, citing Supreme Court Additional Jurisdictions Act, said Buhari lacks locus standi to institute such a suit as he is not directly affected by the Section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act.
He said the appointees affected by the said Section Electoral Act should have been the ones to institute the suit for being shut out from exercising their rights.
