Federal High Court Declares Election Break For Judges

The Federal High Court has announced a brief election break so that its judges can participate fully in the upcoming presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday.

The court’s chief judge, John Tsoho, issued a circular to this effect in which it was stated that the break would start on the 22nd of February and last until the 28th of February.

Additionally, it was said that judges would also be assigned to hear urgent cases from various regions of the nation. A judge will each be assigned under the arrangement to hear urgent matters from the North, South-West, and South-Southeast regions of the nation.

The statement further reads;

“The Administrative Judges in the Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt Judicial Divisions, shall ensure that a Judge is designated to cater for the North, South-West, SouthSouth/South-East Geo-political Areas, respectively, regarding urgent matters during the period.

“In view of the large volume of Pre-Election cases filed so far; with the imminent attendant risk of lapsing, it has become necessary to constitute a Task Force to speedily dispose of the matters, particularly in those Judicial Divisions with a glut of them. “Members of the task force will have four weeks within which to dispose of the pre-election cases.”

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