Federal High Court Bars INEC From Recognising ADC Congresses

ADC

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has barred the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognising or participating in any congress organised by committees appointed by the Senator David Mark-led caretaker leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

The judgment was recently delivered by Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, and Nigerians have been reacting.

Restraining the Senator Mark-led group from interfering with the tenure and functions of elected state executives of the ADC, Joyce said that the responsibility for conducting state congresses rests with state executive committees and not the national leadership of a political party.

The court added that the four-year tenure of the ADC’s State Working Committees and State Executive Committees remains valid and subsisting, pending the conduct of properly constituted congresses and the convocation of a national convention.

WOW.