The National Assembly, NASS, has urged the Appeal Court sitting in Abuja to set aside a Federal High Court judgment that it lacked the power to re-order the proposed sequence for the 2019 general elections.
Subsequently, the lawmakers are asking the appellate court to dismiss the claims of the plaintiff in its entirety.
Justice Ahmed Mohammed of an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court had, in his judgment in a suit filed by Accord Party against National Assembly, Attorney-General of the Federation, and Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, held that the election timetable earlier released by INEC could not be altered by the legislature.
The court maintained that INEC was the only body constitutionally empowered to organise, undertake and supervise elections in the country, adding that such responsibility included fixing dates for polls.
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