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The Senate has reacted to a court order stopping it from re-
amending the Electoral Act 2022 recently signed by President
Muhammadu Buhari.

The Senate on Tuesday challenged the ruling by a Federal
High Court in Abuja.

Senate President Ahmad Lawan, who made this assertion on
the floor at plenary, said the judiciary cannot stop the National
Assembly from performing its constitutionally assigned duties.

“The judiciary, cannot stop the National Assembly from
performing its duties,” Lawan said.

The court, in a ruling delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo,
specifically barred all the defendants in the suit marked FHC/
ABJ/CS/247/2022, from removing section 84 (12) of the
Electoral Act or preventing it from being implemented for the
purpose of the 2023 general elections.

The defendants in the suit are; the Attorney General of the
Federation and Minister of Justice, Senate President, Speaker
of the House of Representatives, Clerk to the National
Assembly, Senate Leader, House of Representatives Leader
and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Others are; Deputy Senate President, Deputy Speaker, House of
Representatives, Deputy Senate Leader and Deputy Leader of
the House of Representatives.

President Muhammadu Buhari, before he signed the Electoral
Act Amendment Bill 2022 into law, asked the National
Assembly to expunge section 84 (12) of the Act, which he
argued would disenfranchise serving political appointees.

The section specifically made it mandatory that political office
holders must firstly resign from office before they could vie for
any elective position.

The court order reads: “No political appointee at any level shall
be a voting delegate or be voted for at the convention or
congress of any political party for the purpose of the
nomination of candidates for any election.”

The PDP, in the substantive suit it filed through its team of
lawyers led by Chief Ogwu Onoja, SAN, challenged the legality
or otherwise of the National Assembly tinkering with the
Electoral Act, after it had been signed into law by the
President.

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The Association of Table Water Producers (ATWAP) says it has increased the price of a bag of sachet water from N150 to N200 with immediate effect due to rising production costs.

The Oye-Ekiti and Ikole-Ekiti Zonal Chairman of the association, Tale Oguntoyinbo, announced this in a statement in Oye -Ekiti on Friday.

Mr Oguntoyinbo said the price increment was necessary for producers to bring quality portable water to the door steps of consumers, which was not visible with the current cost of materials for water production.

“Water is important to everybody and water is life, the cost of maintenance, and production costs keepbgoing up everyday.

“In order to satisfy our numerous customers and ensure they have drinkable water on their table, the only option open to us is to increase the price from the current N150 to N200.”

The chairman noted that the decision to increase the price was not easy, but alleged that government had done nothing to assist water producers in alleviating regulating cost of material.

He said that most cities where nylon and other materials for water were being produced with regular electricity, were selling between N200 and N250 per bag.

Mr Oguntoyinbo lamented that water producers, especially in Oye-Ekiti and Ikole-Ekiti axis of the state could not improve the condition of their factories or afford to buy a new vehicle because of paucity of fund.

He, however, appealed to their numerous customers to bear and reason with the association in view of the present economic crisis in Nigeria, praying for better times ahead. ( NAN )

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Putin has seen bad things and done very bad things.
We know Ukraine will bend and they will negotiate with Russia. I see the invasion coming to an end on a round table.
The Ukrainians now know who to call friends.
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