{"id":61513,"date":"2022-03-18T17:27:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/electoral-act-court-orders-malami-to-delete-section-8412-gives-reason"},"modified":"2022-03-18T17:41:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:41:03","slug":"electoral-act-court-orders-malami-to-delete-section-8412-gives-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electoral-act-court-orders-malami-to-delete-section-8412-gives-reason","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Act: Court orders Malami to delete Section 84(12), gives reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Abia State division of the Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia on Friday ordered the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami to delete Section 84 (12) of the amended Electoral Act without delay.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Evelyn Anyadike ordered Malami to delete the section of the Electoral Amendment Act \u201cforthwith\u201d because it\u2019s unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>In her judgment, Justice Anyadike held that the section was \u201cunconstitutional, invalid, illegal, null, void and of no effect whatsoever and ought to be struck down as it cannot stand when it is in violation of the clear provisions of the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She ordered that the Attorney General of the Federation \u201cforthwith delete the said Subsection 12 of Section 84 from the body of the Electoral Act, 2022\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari recently signed the amended Electoral Act.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed to the National Assembly to delete the provision claiming that it violated the Constitution and breached the rights of government appointees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Abia State division of the Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia on Friday ordered the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami to delete Section 84 (12) of the amended Electoral Act without delay. Justice Evelyn Anyadike ordered Malami to delete the section of the Electoral Amendment Act \u201cforthwith\u201d because it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":61512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1578,69,1763,1104,254],"class_list":["post-61513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-breaking","tag-court","tag-electoral-act","tag-malami","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Electoral Act: Court orders Malami to delete Section 84(12), gives reason - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Abia State division of the Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia on Friday ordered the Attorney-General of the Feder ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electoral-act-court-orders-malami-to-delete-section-8412-gives-reason\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Electoral Act: Court orders Malami to delete Section 84(12), gives reason\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Abia State division of the Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia on Friday ordered the Attorney-General of the Feder ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electoral-act-court-orders-malami-to-delete-section-8412-gives-reason\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-18T16:27:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-18T16:41:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/img-6234b603bd9ad.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"692\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electoral-act-court-orders-malami-to-delete-section-8412-gives-reason#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electoral-act-court-orders-malami-to-delete-section-8412-gives-reason\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Electoral Act: Court orders Malami to delete Section 84(12), gives reason\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-18T16:27:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-18T16:41:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electoral-act-court-orders-malami-to-delete-section-8412-gives-reason\"},\"wordCount\":171,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electoral-act-court-orders-malami-to-delete-section-8412-gives-reason#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/img-6234b603bd9ad.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"breaking\",\"court\",\"Electoral Act\",\"Malami\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electoral-act-court-orders-malami-to-delete-section-8412-gives-reason#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electoral-act-court-orders-malami-to-delete-section-8412-gives-reason\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electoral-act-court-orders-malami-to-delete-section-8412-gives-reason\",\"name\":\"Electoral Act: Court orders Malami to delete Section 84(12), gives reason - 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