Dokpesi, Mohammed drag Buhari to Court over Executive Order 6

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LAGOS —CHAIRMAN, Daar Communications, Dr Raymond Dokpesi, Senator Bala Mohammed and Ambassador Bello Mohammed have dragged President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, challenging the constitutionality of Executive Order No 6 of 2018.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday signed an Executive Order to improve his administration’s fight against corruption.

The plaintiffs, in the suit, are asking the court to declare that the Presidential Order 6 issued by the President, which stigmatizes them (plaintiffs) as corrupt and label their assets as proceeds of corruption liable for forfeiture is unlawful, null and void and of no effect whatsoever, having regard to the fact that the said order constitutes an attempt by the president to exercise to the detriment of the plaintiffs judicial and legislative powers…



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