Two lawyers challenge President Buhari”s Executive Order 6

Two lawyers, Ikenga Ugochinyere and Kenneth Udeze, have asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to declare President Muhammadu Buhari’s Executive Order No 6 unconstitutional. The applicants want the Court to determine whether the order has a right to take away properties of suspects listed in the attached schedule. The plaintiffs want the court to […]

Two lawyers, Ikenga Ugochinyere and Kenneth Udeze, have asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to declare President Muhammadu Buhari’s Executive Order No 6 unconstitutional.

The applicants want the Court to determine whether the order has a right to take away properties of suspects listed in the attached schedule.

The plaintiffs want the court to rule that the defendants: President Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation lack the powers to make the Order based on the combined effects of Sections 5, 36 and 43 of the 1999 Constitution.

Among the reliefs they seek through their lawyer, Obed Agu, is a determination of whether the President can validly exercise his powers by deliberately undermining the rights of any citizen to fair hearing.

Others reliefs include:

“A declaration that the act or conduct of the president in issuing the order interfere with, or encroach into the ownership, or otherwise of the assets or properties of any person without such person being found guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction, is unconstitutional, null and void.

“A declaration that the president cannot validly exercise his constitutional powers by deliberately undermining, limiting and/or inhibiting the entrenched constitutional rights of any citizen of Nigeria to fair hearing vide the issuance of the Order."

Meanwhile, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu has adjourned the suit to August 8 for hearing.