POWER(S) OF THE PRESIDENT - Whether the President of Nigeria can invoke the judicial process to challenge the constitutionality of an Act of the National Assembly which he assented to
HELD:
"The holder of an office that participated in the making of a law, by virtue of his holding that office, cannot afterwards, as holder of that office, challenge the constitutionality, correctness, justification or desirability of that law.
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