The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has rejected Friday’s ruling of the Federal High Court in Lokoja, Kogi, setting aside an earlier judgment that had compelled the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to register it as a political party.
The party said that it remained legally recognised and would immediately challenge the decision at the Court of Appeal.
The party’s national chairman, Sen. Moses Cleopas, stated this at a news conference he addressed in Abuja at the NDC National Secretariat.
Cleopas said that the ruling neither directed its deregistration nor invalidated the nominations of its candidates for the 2027 general elections, urging members and supporters across the country to remain calm.
While describing the court’s decision as legally flawed, he argued that the trial court lacked the jurisdiction to revisit a matter on which it had already delivered a final judgment.
