Court To Rule March 20 In Seventh-day Adventist Church Suit Seeking Saturday To Be Declared Sacred

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Wednesday, fixed March 20 to deliver judgment in a suit filed by a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Ugochukwu Uchenwa, seeking to stop the conduct of elections and examinations on Saturdays.

Justice James Omotosho fixed the date after listening to the counsel’s arguments for and against the suit.

The plaintiff, Mr Uchenwa, an elder of the church, filed the suit on the grounds that fixing elections and examinations on Saturdays violated his rights and that of other church members 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 church members to vote or write examinations on any other day of the week, including Sundays.

Listed as defendants in the suit are the president, the attorney general of the federation, INEC, the internal affairs minister, JAMB, NECO, WAEC, the National Business and Technical Examination Board, Council of Legal Education and the Ministry of Education.
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