The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) over its failure to investigate allegations of alterations in the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill and the Tax Reform Bills.
It is alleged that certain lawmakers improperly removed key sections on the electronic transmission of election results from the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill during plenary and unlawfully altered aspects of the tax reform bills.
In suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/634/2026, filed last week at the Federal High Court in Abuja, SERAP is seeking an order of mandamus to compel the CCB to probe allegations that certain lawmakers improperly removed key provisions on the electronic transmission of election results from the bill.
SERAP is also seeking an order of mandamus directing the CCB to investigate claims that certain lawmakers and executive branch officials unlawfully altered aspects of the tax reform bills, resulting in discrepancies between the versions passed by lawmakers and the gazetted copies available to the public.
SERAP argues that the Code of Conduct for Public Officers is a constitutional requirement designed to ensure probity, accountability, and transparency in public life.
In the suit, filed on behalf of SERAP by its lawyers Kolawole Oluwadare, Kehinde Oyewumi, and Andrew Nwankwo, the organisation stated: “Public officers are bound by constitutional standards of conduct, and breaches of such standards ought to attract constitutional consequences.”
Citing Paragraph One of the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution of Nigeria 1999, SERAP noted that public officers are prohibited from placing themselves in situations where personal interests conflict with official duties.
