The Federal High Court of Nigeria (FHC) is suspending proceedings for five days from today in view of this weekend’s Presidential and National Assembly elections.

The Chief Judge, Justice John Tsoho, gave the directive in a letter addressed to judges of the court.

According to the correspondence, they (judges) are to resume on Tuesday, February 28, three days after the polls. The break is to allow the judges to vote in the elections.

The CJ, however, directed that there would be one judge for each geo-political zone to hear urgent matters during the period.

Justice Tsoho announced this in a February 20 letter titled, ‘Break for the 2023 general elections’, sighted by The Guardian.

The memo reads: “In view of the forthcoming 2023 general elections, Your Lordships are by this circular permitted to observe a short break in order to perform your civic duties.

“Your Lordships are to sit up to Wednesday, February 22, 2023 before proceeding on the break and shall resume work on Tuesday, February 28, 2023.

“The Administrative Judges in the Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt Judicial Divisions shall ensure that a Judge is designated to cater for the North, South-West, South-South/South-East geo-political areas respectively, regarding urgent matters during the period.”