Deregistration: A/Court defers hearing of appeals by ADC, four others till July 7

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Abuja
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Thursday deferred until July 7 the hearing of substantive appeals seeking to set aside the judgment that ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and four other political parties.
A three-member panel of the appellate court, led by Justice Abba Mohammed, okayed a full-blown hearing of the appeals after house-keeping proceedings that enabled parties in the matter to identify and regularise all the processes they filed in the matter.
Aside from the ADC, the other parties seeking the nullification of the Federal High Court judgment are the Action ...