The law makers or now more appropriately “Law breakers” have continued to thrown all caution to the winds as they forge ahead with their unrestrained and unlawful actions; their disobedience of a recent Federal High Court order to discontinue with the second amendment to the Constitution following a suit instituted by human rights activist and former President of the NBA Olisa Agbakoba (SAN).
The plaintiff had gone to court for an order of injunction to restrain the lawmakers from making any further amendments to the 1999 Constitution until the requirement for Presidential assent has been determined by the court. A similar one was also instituted by another human rights activist, Bamidele Aturu for determination of the same issue by the Court.
While all this was going on, the Senate President David Mark chose to ignore the court injunction and went ahead with the amendments to the 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Act giving the untenable excuse that nothing should be done to derail the time-table for the 2011 elections. Meanwhile, INEC is yet to commence the registration of voters exercise and the amended electoral timetable has not come into effect.
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