The apex court on Thursday fixed the date after joining the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly and the State Attorney General as second and third defendants in the suit.
The two parties joined in the matter had, in their application said the subject matter in the originating summons by Buhari relates to the validity and constitutionality of the provisions of section 84 of the Electoral Act enacted by the National Assembly and applicable throughout the country, including Rivers State.
“A declaration that having regard to the clear provision of Section 1 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended, read together with Section 4 of the same Constitution, the legislative powers vested in the defendant do not permit or empower it to make any other law prescribing additional qualifying /disqualifying grounds for election to the National Assembly, House of Assembly, Gubernatorial and Presidential election outside the express constitutional qualification...
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