Appeal Court overturns judgement deregistering ADC, Accord, three other opposition political parties
As it did on Tuesday, the three-member panel of the appellate court berated Federal High Court Judge Peter Lifu for proceeding to hear the matter and issuing the deregistration order despite a subsisting order of stay of proceedings from a higher court.
On 15 June, Mr Lifu proceeded to deliver the judgement in favour of the plaintiff despite lawyers to some of the affected political parties informing him of a pending appeal on the matter before the Court of Appeal.“The evidence before the court clearly shows compliance with Section 225 (a) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended); that the judgement of the trial judge was perverse,” Daily Trust quoted the Court of Appeal as ruling on Tuesday.
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