The Federal High Court Abuja has fixed March 20 to deliver judgment in a suit filed by a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Mr Ugochukwu Uchenwa seeking to stop the conduct of elections and examinations on Saturdays.
Justice James Omotosho fixed the date Wednesday after listening to counsel’s arguments for and against the suit.
The plaintiff, Uchenwa, an elder of the church, filed the suit because fixing elections and examinations on Saturdays violated his rights and that of other members of the church, to freedom of worship.
He is praying the court to declare the fixing of elections and examinations on Saturdays as unconstitutional.
In the alternative, the plaintiff, prayed the court to order the defendants to allow him and other members of his church to vote or write examinations on any other day of the week including Sundays.
Listed as defendants in the suit are the President,…
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