Reps To Bar Courts From Sacking President, Governors
October 20, 2020
2:25 pm
A law to bar courts and election tribunals from voiding the election of a President-elect and governors-elect, because of blemishes in the educational qualifications of their running mates, is underway in the House of Representatives.
The Bill to that effect is entitled: βAn Act to Alter the Provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, to Preserve the Elections of a Candidate to the Office of the President and Governor whose running mates are found to have Defected in their Qualificationβ.
The Bill, sponsored by Rep. Solomon T. Bob (Rivers-PDP), seeks to alter β Section 142 (1) …
