The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, has set aside the Federal High Court judgment that ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to deregister five political parties.
The affected parties are the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Accord Party, Action Alliance, AA, Action Peoples Party, APP, and Zenith Labour Party, ZLP.
Delivering a unanimous judgment on Tuesday, a three-man panel led by Justice Abba Mohammed declared the Federal High Court decision “null and void” and described it as “a nullity.”
The appellate court held that the trial court, presided over by Justice Peter Lifu, lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the suit in the first instance. It also faulted the lower court for delivering judgment despite a subsisting order of the Court of Appeal for a stay of proceedings.
According to the panel, the trial court’s action amounted to “judicial impertinence or what the Supreme Court called judicial insubordination.”
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