Senior lawyers in the country have warned political appointees seeking elective offices against disobeying the provisions of section 84(12) of the Electoral Act (2022). LEADERSHIP reports.

Political appointees who fail to resign before seeking election offices stand the risk of losing their seats after being elected, they warned. Information Guide Nigeria

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They added that the decision of the court remains the position of the law, even though some of them expressed divergent views, saying the final determination of the matter, which is already an appeal pending before the Court of Appeal, would be made known when the Supreme Court makes its pronouncement on it. jamb results

The said section of the Electoral Act provides that all political appointees vying for elective positions should resign at least one year before the election.

But a Federal High Court in Umuahia, Abia State, on March 18, 2022, ordered the AGF to deplete section 84(12) of the newly amended Electoral Act.

President Muhammadu Buhari had also written to the National Assembly, asking it to delete the controversial clause.

The court, in a judgment delivered by Justice Evelyn Anyadike, held that the section was unconstitutional, invalid, illegal, null, void, and of no effect whatsoever.