The Senate will, on Wednesday, debate the ruling of a Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State, which nullified the controversial Section 84 of the amended Electoral Act.The section requires ministers, heads of agencies and other political appointees to resign before participating in primaries, conventions and other electoral activities.
Mr Sekibo, while invoking Senate Orders 10 and 11 which is on privileges said the electoral law emanated from the National Assembly, therefore the parliament should be joined as a party in the suit. He, therefore, moved that the issue be discussed during plenary today to avoid setting bad precedence on laws enacted by the federal parliament.However, the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, who presided over plenary, suggested that the debate on the issue be postponed to Wednesday since Senate President Ahmad Lawan and many other lawmakers, were absent.
President Buhari had argued that “Section 84 constitutes a disenfranchisement of serving political office holders from voting or being voted for at conventions or congresses of any political party, for the purpose of the nomination of candidates for any election in cases where it holds earlier than 30 days to the national election”.
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