Party Deregistration: ADC youth wing petitions NJC, demands Lifu’s removal

The National Youth Wing of the absorption African Democratic Congress, ADC) has written a ceremonial petition against Justice Peter Odo Lifu, demanding his removal “from immoderate and each adjudicatory matters, reviews, oregon decision-making roles concerning the ADC.”

The petition, dated June 18, 2026, was addressed to the Executive Secretary, National Judicial Council (NJC), and signed by the ADC’s nationalist younker leader, Comrade Balarabe Rufai. 

While speechmaking the contented of the petition to media successful beforehand of the ADC National Secretariat, Comrade Rufai, who was represented by Comrade Ibrahim Garba Wala, alleged that determination were attempts to forestall them from submitting the petition astatine the NJC. 

According to him, each roads starring to the NJC, on Thursday were barricaded by heavy equipped information agents; hence, the request to contiguous the petition to the public. 

The petition reads, “We request the immediate, full removal of Hon. Justice Peter Odo Lifu from immoderate and each adjudicatory matters, reviews, oregon decision-making roles concerning the ADC. Furthermore, fixed his signifier of flagrant judicial rascality, we explicitly request that the National Judicial Council urge his implicit dismissal from the Nigerian judiciary to sphere the fading credibility of the bench.

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