The efforts by the National Assembly to re-order the sequence of election as against the dictate of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been nullified.
The amendment of the Electoral Act by the legislative house was nullified by an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court.
Presided over by Justice Ahmed Mohammed the court declared that only the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) could create an election template for the country.
He said except an amendment of the constitution was carried out, any effort by the National Assembly to amend Section 25, as done by the National Assembly would be wrong.
The National Assembly had re-ordered the sequence of the coming election in an amendment it carried out on the Electoral Act.
With the changes to it, the presidential election which was scheduled to come first would come last.
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Analysts had described the move as one that would not be favourable to the president during voting.
They reasoned that it could cost him electoral fortune.
When passed to President Muhammadu Buhari for approval, he refused, declaring that it was only the electoral body that the constitution gave the power to carry out such a re-ordering of the election sequence.
However, it was the Accord Party that filed the application to find out if the legislators were right in their action or not.
