Court to rule on suit seeking to deregister ADC, Accord, others March 24

The Federal High Court successful Abuja has fixed March 24 for ruling successful a joinder exertion successful a suit seeking to compel the deregistration of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Accord Party, Zenith Labour Party, ZLP, and Action Alliance, AA, implicit alleged non-compliance with law requirements.

The suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/2637/25, was instituted by the Incorporated Trustees of the National Forum of Former Legislators, NFFL, against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and the affected governmental parties.

The archetypal originating summons had lone the ADC arsenic the governmental enactment targeted for deregistration but was subsequently amended to see the 4 others whose continued beingness were said to person constituted a breach of the Constitution.

At the proceedings connected Tuesday, assorted lawyers announced quality for the governmental parties progressive but Action Alliance AA which has 2 antithetic ineligible practitioners from antithetic instrumentality firms representing it.

The 2 lawyers claiming representations for AA and who stood their grounds connected legitimacy are Ibrahim Yakubu and Bello Lukman.

In the play that ensued, the presiding judge, Justice Peter Lifu, asked the counsel whether they were together, to which some confirmed they had abstracted letters of instructi...