A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday reserved judgment in a case challenging the election of senators Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu as Senate President and Deputy Senate President respectively.
Justice Adeniyi Ademola made the pronouncement after counsel to the parties adopted their written addresses.
Four senators, Abu Ibrahim, Kabir Marafa, Robert Boroffice and Sulieman Hunkuyi, filed the suit challenging the process that led to the elections of the two principal officers.
The clerk of the National Assembly and that of the Senate were also listed as respondents.
The plaintiffs are seeking a declaration that the Senate Standing Order 2011 (as amended) was the valid and subsisting Standing Order of the 8th Senate.
They are also seeking declaration that the Senate Standing Order 2015 (as amended) not being a product of any legitimate amendment pursuant to the extant provision of rule 110 of Senate Order, was illegal.
They also want a declaration that the election of Messrs. Saraki and Ekweremadu as president and deputy senate president pursuant to the Senate Standing Order 2015, was illegal.
-Frontiers News
