In a bid to have section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act 2022 deleted, President Muhammadu Buhari has enlisted the services of five Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) to battle the fierce legal battle instituted against him by the Peoples Democratic Party PDP on the Electoral Act dispute.

The five SANs are Chief Oladipupo Okpeseyi, renowned Professor of law, Yemi Akinseye George, Abdul Atadoga Ibrahim, Tijani Alkali Gasali and Ehiogie West-Idahosa.

The senior lawyers are mandated to fortify the position of the Presidency that section 84 (12) of the 2022 Electoral Act is unconstitutional, null and void and should be deleted.

Already, Buhari, through the legal team being coordinated by Okpeseyi SAN has filed a Preliminary Objection suit against the PDP suit seeking its outright dismissal on the ground that the suit failed to disclose any cause of action against him.

The President who is the 1st and major defendant in the court action labelled PDP as a busy body seeking to take over the constitutional functions of the National Assembly through the back door.

He had on Thursday at the Federal High Court filed a joint counter-affidavit alongside the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) to debunk all allegations made against them by the party.

In the new process, Buhari told the court that PDP was registered as a political party but now seeking to take over the functions of the Senate on law-making and law amendment.

He asked the court to resist the temptation of granting the request of the PDP so as not to impede the growth of democratic governance in the country.

Buhari’s preliminary objection against the suit was predicated on two major grounds among which are that the suit is incompetent as it does not disclose any reasonable cause of action thereby robbing the court of jurisdiction.

He claimed that the suit of the plaintiff is premature as there is nothing before the court showing the existence of any cause of action.

The President also hinged his call for the dismissal of the suit on the reason that it discloses no wrongful act against him or any injury suffered by PDP or any damage likely to be suffered by the party if the Electoral Act’s section 84 (12) is deleted.

Ground two of the objection was premised on abuse of court process in view of a judgment by the same court in Umuahia delivered by Justice Evelyn Anyadike on March 18 in suit No FHC/UM/CS/26/2022 which nullified and set aside section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act 2022.

In the bid to justify his request for dismissal of PDP’S suit, Buhari cited section 240 of the 1999 Constitution which forbids the Federal High Court from sitting as an Appeal Court on its own decisions.

A copy of the preliminary objection sighted by DAILY POST showed it was endorsed by Oladipupo Okpeseyi SAN on the authority of President Buhari and has been served on parties in the suit for hearing on May 16 by Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo.

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Mynd44
Lalasticlala

Does Nigeria even has a president?

Instead his appointees will just resign jeje he is hiring SANs

I just pray one of his ministers picks the ticket without resigning and the Supreme Court ends up upholding the law which will automatically disqualify APC from the race.

Ndi ala!

Hnnnmm

If lawlessness was a party, that should have been the party of Bubu and his forty thieves. They make laws but can't follow it. They are lawlessness themselves.

Last deal of a sinking party

Ehiogie west idahosa na lawyer too?

Can't he afford our Edo lawyer ozekhome

Penguin2:
Instead his appointees will just resign jeje he is hiring SANs

I just pray one of his ministers picks the ticket without resigning and the Supreme Court ends up upholding the law which will automatically disqualify APC from the race.

Ndi ala!

it is another clear fingerprint that he really wants one of those Ministries to take over and we know who

If not i don't see why he is taking this thing serious even though the ministers breach no law on resign date so long they resign before 30th may

Ok

Ok, good luck to him

I hate to insult an old man ... But why does Buhari have to always reason this way and manner for goodness sake

For a man that has gotten away with many reckless behaviour since the 70s he is now close to 80 and should start thinking differently

As a service chief in the 70s he disobey President Shagari and invaded Chad and later claim he didn't get the order

Also as a Millitary he forcefully took over from democratically elected Shagari Government, jailing almost everyone In Government

As a civilian, he supported Sharia, Extremist Islamic groups calling them fellow northerners, tried many times to allocate state resources to only Fulani ethnicity, called for riot after loosing an election


Now he is about to turn Nigerian constituition upside down because of some few friends


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Truthisunique2:
it is another clear fingerprint that he really wants one of those Ministries to take over and we know who

If not i don't see why he is taking this thing serious even though the ministers breach no law on resign date so long they resign before 30th may

Una too dey console unaself. Malami is behind all this, he is affected too and would use the power of his office to exhaust all possibilities before giving up.