The Court of Appeal has ordered the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and others to desist from taking steps capable of frustrating hearing in an appeal filed against judgment of a Federal High Court which ordered removal of Section 84 (12) from the new Electoral Act.
This is as the appellate court granted leave to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to join in the appeal as person interested against the judgment of the trial court, which voided and struck down Section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act.
PDP was granted the permission by the Owerri division of the Appeal Court to file its appeal as an interested person against the decision of the Federal High Court, Umuahia, on the order for removal of the Section from the Electoral law.
In an enrol order of the Court of Appeal obtained in Abuja on Sunday by our correspondent and signed by the Presiding Justice of the court, Justice Rita Noshakhare Pemu, the leave granted PDP to file an appeal was occasioned by submissions of its counsel, D.C Denwigwe (SAN).
Credit: Nigerian Tribune