The Federal High Court of Nigeria has constituted a special task force of Judges to swiftly hear and determine all pre-election cases before it.
This was contained circular issued by the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho on Wednesday in Abuja.
According to the circular, the task force has become necessary to designate a team of Judges following the large volume of pre-election suits that have flooded the court.
The circular direct Judges who are members of the task force to suspend all regular cases in their respective courts, due to the urgency of electoral cases, which are time-bound.
It said, “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”.
A statement from the information department stated that the Judges will have four weeks within which to dispose of pre-election cases brought before them.
