The Supreme Court has declared as unlawful and unconstitutional President Muhammadu Buhari’s Executive Order Ten on the funding of State Judiciary and Legislature.
The court in a split decision agreed that President Buhari exceeded his constitutional powers in issuing Executive Order Ten.
Six out of the seven members of the panel rejected and set aside the Executive Order Ten.
The apex court also dismissed the sixty-six-billion-naira suit filed by the state governors against the Federal Government.
The thirty-six states governors had in the suit sought an order of the court to compel the Federal Government to take up funding of capital projects for State High Courts, Sharia Court of Appeal, and Customary Court of Appeal.
They had also applied for an order of the apex court to compel the Federal Government to pay them sixty-six billion naira, being an amount, they have so far spent on capital projects for the three courts.
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law the Executive Order Ten in May 2020 and set up a committee to fashion out strategies for the implementation of financial autonomy for state legislature and judiciary.