Court Rules APP Validly Registered, Fit For Polls

The Federal High Court sitting in Owerri has dismissed a suit seeking to deregister the Action Peoples Party (APP), even as it described the plaintiff, Mazi Franklin Ngoforo, as a busybody who wasted the court’s time.
Justice I.N. Oweibo, in his judgment in  suit No. FHC/OW/CS/39/2026, resolved all five questions for determination against the plaintiff and refused all the reliefs sought.
Ngoforo had dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the attorney-general of the federation and the Action Peoples Party to court, asking among other things, for an order to deregister the APP because it didn’t clinch any position in the 2023 general elections.
Further, the plai...