Nigerian High Court Commences Five-Day Break For Presidential, National Assembly Elections

The Federal High Court of Nigeria will on Wednesday commence five days break ahead of the presidential and national assembly elections on Saturday.

The Chief Judge of the court, Justice John Tsoho, in a letter dated February 20, 2023 and titled “Break for the 2023 general elections” directed the court’s justices to sit up till Wednesday before proceeding on the break.

The letter read, “In view of the forthcoming 2023 general elections, Your Lordships are by this Circular letter permitted to observe a short break in order to perform your civic duties.

“Your Lordships are to sit up to Wednesday, 22nd February 2023 before proceeding on the break and shall resume work on Tuesday, 28th February 2023.

“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, South-South/South-East geo-political areas respectively, regarding urgent matters during the period.”

According to the directive, the judges are to resume work on Tuesday, February 28 as the break is only to allow the judges to vote in the elections.

However, there will be one judge each, available for each geo-political zone to entertain urgent matters during the break period.