Ade Adesomoju and Leke BaiyewuThe Court of Appeal in Abuja on Wednesday nullified the April 25, 2018 judgment of the Federal High Court which had struck down the National Assembly’s election re-ordering provision of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2018. [READ ALSO] 2019: Be ready for war, Secondus tells defectors from APCJustice Bulkachuwa, therefore, ruled that the Federal High Court wrongly assumed jurisdiction to entertain the suit and erroneously struck down the provision. The appeal ruled upon by the Court of Appeal was filed by the National Assembly against the April 25, 2018 judgment of Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Abuja. The Federal High Court’s judgment had voided the elections’ sequence provision of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2018. But the National Assembly later expunged the provision from the bill following the judgment of the Federal High Court.

Source: Punch August 01, 2018 23:30 UTC