The federal high court, Abuja, has ordered the national assembly to suspend actions on the electoral act.
President Muhammadu Buhari rejected amendment to the act on Tuesday.
In a letter to both chambers of the national assembly, the president said the amendment to the “sequence of elections in section 25 of the principal act, may infringe upon the constitutionally guaranteed discretion of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to organise, undertake and supervise elections provided in Section 15(a) of the third statue to the constitution”.
Ahmed Mohammed, the judge, gave the restraining order in a suit filed by Accord Party on Wednesday.
The party is challenging the constitutionality of the amendment to the electoral act.
Wole Olanipekun, counsel to the party, had prayed the court for a “preservative order”.
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