Barr Jezie Ekejiuba
Legally speaking, INEC lacks constitutional power exclusively reserved for courts of law to review any Supreme court judgment or any court judgment for that matter.
Ii is the concern of any aggrieved defeated candidate to approach the court to ventilate whether the provisions of the Electoral Act 2026 as amended has been violated assuming he or she as a litigant has the requisite locus standi_ to lodge the action within the 14-Day window permitted by law.
As a Constitutional and Human Rights lawyer, I know that no judgment or law is permitted to enjoy retrospective application under the Nigerian jurisprudence.
I posit without mincing words that the applicable judicial law as at the time of the questioned nomination process was the High Court Judgment which was subsequently upheld by the Court of Appeal judgment as the duration of this period is legal.
Likewise the applicable judicial law after the Supreme Court verdict is the Supreme court judgment.The duration of this period is the extant judicial law.
So the much ado about the landmark Supreme Court judgment raised by the hatchet writers who are not tutored in law is unwarranted In the premises above,the legality of the affected candidates including that of Rep.Chinda, the APC Guber candidate in Rivers State is obvious and immutable..
Ekejiuba is the President, Nigerian Voters Organisation ( NVO). You can contact him through WhatsApp/ Tel.+2348036095750
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