• Judgement vindicates party, reaffirms supremacy of rule of law, says opposition party
•ADC berates lower court for seeking to manufacture evidence in negation of INEC’s affidavit that opposition parties didn’t meet threshold for deregistration
Chuks Okocha and Alex Enumah in Abuja
The Court of Appeal, Abuja, yesterday, cleared the 2027 road for African Democratic Congress (ADC), after it nullified the judgement of a Federal High Court that ordered Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister the opposition party and four others.
A three-member panel of the Court of Appeal, in a judgement delivered yesterday, held that the trial court was wrong to have assumed jurisdiction in the suit filed by a non-juristic person.
