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The Court of Appeal in Abuja has suspended the enforcement of a Federal High Court judgment that directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and four other political parties.

In an unanimous ruling on Tuesday, a three-member panel of the appellate court led by Justice A. B. Mohammed ordered that the judgment delivered by Justice Peter Lifu remain on hold pending the hearing and determination of the appeal against the decision.

The panel said Lifu’s action was “the highest form of judicial impertinence,” stressing that the Supreme Court previously held that a judge who acted in such manner “is unfit for the bench as it amounts to judicial rascality.”



The appellate court held that Justice Lifu’s action amounted to an affront on the hierarchy of courts.

It held that the lower court’s action was “the highest form of judicial impertinence,” stressing that the Supreme Court previously held that a judge who acted in such manner “is unfit for the bench as it amounts to judicial rascality.”

“Courts are enjoined to protect their integrity. This Court has supervisory authority over the trial court. The decision of the lower court to proceed with the judgment despite the express order of this court is a brazen violation of the hierarchy of the court and the 1999 Constitution.

“This court has the duty to invoke its powers in ensuring that its orders are made.

“The application for stay of execution is here yet granted. The enforcement of the judgment is stayed,” the appellate court held.

The move comes after INEC and the affected political parties challenged the judgment, arguing that Justice Lifu proceeded to deliver the verdict despite a subsisting May 22 order of the Court of Appeal said to have halted further proceedings in the matter.

Among the parties affected by the deregistration order are the Action Peoples Party (APP), Action Alliance (AA), Accord Party (AP), and Zenith Labour Party (ZLP). Their lawyers had urged the appellate court to grant a stay of execution, warning that implementation of the judgment could disrupt by-elections scheduled to hold in six states on June 20.

At Tuesday’s proceedings before a three-member panel of the appellate court, INEC’s legal team said it was surprised that Justice Lifu delivered the judgment despite an earlier order of the Court of Appeal, which, according to the commission, was meant to halt the delivery of the verdict.

INEC further stated that it was not officially notified of the judgment and only became aware of the ruling through media reports. The commission told the court it was backing the notice of appeal filed by the affected political parties.

“My Lords, we are aware of an order that this court made on May 22, which stopped the delivery of the judgment of the lower court, which was initially reserved for delivery on June 5. We were not aware of any notice from the court regarding the delivery of the judgment. We only saw it as breaking news in the media. We therefore do not oppose the application of the appellant to stay the execution of the judgment.”

Source: https://politicsnigeria.com/2026/06/16/breaking-appeal-court-halts-execution-of-judgment-deregistering-adc-others/

So Elon is supposedly the first trillionaire now.

Wild.

A trillion dollars is a million dollars a million times.

And it still can’t buy one extra heartbeat from God.

Rockets.

Satellites.

AI.

Electric cars.

The whole Babel starter pack.

Hey..remember the Baphomet costume he was so proud to wear.

I’m not pretending to know the man’s soul.

God does.

But I do know this..

If you can touch space and still miss heaven, you’re not advanced.

You’re just lost at a higher altitude.

Jesus said:

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
Mark 8:36

The world keeps begging rich men to save it.

God already sent His Son.

“Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God…”
1 Timothy 6:17

Uncertain riches...

One bad market day.

One bad diagnosis.

One final breath.

Then what?

The poorest man in Christ is richer than the richest man without Him.

I’ll take the Lamb over the rocket man.

Op you wicked oo. You wan give Yarimo, Helinues, Putindbutt, Okoroawusa, Aminda and other batists Bp.

2027. A new Nigeria is POssible

Tinubu and Apc wants to scatter Ndc, but God pass them

Yarimo, Helinues, LegendHero, Aminda how far. God will put all the enemies of Nigeria to shame.

A new Nigeria is POssible
Nigeria will be OK

Some people will get heart attack with this news

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NaijaHelper1:
The hunter has become the hunted. Wike time is running out.

He may likely head to supreme court

The reinstated Emeka Beke-led executive of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has declared all candidate nominations from the party’s just-concluded primaries null and void.

The nullified primaries had notably produced House of Representatives member Kingsley Chinda, a close ally of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike, as the party’s governorship candidate following the withdrawal of Governor Siminalayi Fubara.

Several other Wike loyalists had also emerged as APC flagbearers for the 2027 National and State Assembly elections.

The development follows a Friday ruling by Justice Elfreida Oluwayemisi Williams-Dawodu of the Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt. The appellate court upheld a Rivers State High Court decision that nullified the congresses producing Chief Tony Okocha, Wike’s chief ally in the state, as the party’s chairman.

Reacting to the judgement in a statement on Monday, Darlington Nwauju, the spokesperson for the reinstated Beke faction, declared that all decisions, nominations, and documentations made under the Okocha-led faction between December 20, 2024, and May 29, 2026, are illegal and have no effect.

Nwauju argued that the Tony Okocha faction had no legal right to represent the party or conduct primaries, accusing them of trying to turn the Rivers APC into an exclusive club where founding members and key stakeholders were unfairly disqualified for frivolous reasons.

“All nominations, representations, communications, documentations including decisions reached on behalf of the Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress between December 20, 2024, to Friday, May 29, 2026, with the seal of the illegal executives, is illegal, null, void and of no effect,” Nwauju stated.

The Beke faction has now urged the National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC to immediately review and wipe out all records of the primaries conducted by the Okocha faction to avoid a repeat of the “Zamfara experience,” where the party lost its electoral victories due to invalid primaries.

Additionally, the faction called on the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) to withdraw the certificates of return issued to local government chairmen and councilors from the Okocha faction who won the August 2025 local government elections, demanding they be handed over to candidates originally submitted by the legally recognized Emeka Beke executive.

Source: https://politicsnigeria.com/2026/06/02/rivers-apc-leadership-sacks-chinda-wikes-preferred-candidates/

Osetigo. Let the defections begin. Aggrieved members and those that lost in Apc primaries will all defect to Ndc

It seems APC has just shot itself in the foot by choosing to tread on a path that even INEC, with all its boldness, would not dare to walk.

Too much of everything, they say, is bad. In the coming days, APC may have set itself up for endless litigation that could distract the party badly ahead of 2027, all because of excessive politics and unnecessary manipulation.

First, APC started by selling forms to people they already knew would never be cleared to participate in the primaries. After making huge money from the exercise, they went ahead to disqualify almost one-third of those who purchased the forms, simply because they believed they lack the locus to challenge the injustice in court.

But now, the real problem has emerged.

For almost 48 hours, APC has refused to announce the results of the Senatorial primaries conducted across the country.

Acting in line with party guidelines and its Constitution, APC had earlier constituted Electoral Committees nationwide to conduct the Senate primary elections on Monday. But shockingly, on the eve of the primaries, the party released a memo stripping those committees of the power to declare the results of the elections they were sent to conduct, unless such results were first vetted in Abuja.

And I ask, how do you empower people to conduct an election, yet deny them the authority to tell contestants who won and who lost?

Well, the Electoral Committees across the nation completed their assignments, yet APC has continued to withhold the results because what they are allegedly cooking up as “results” is still being perfected behind closed doors.

The implication of this manipulation is dangerous for the party itself. APC may have unknowingly fallen into the trap of aggrieved aspirants and handed even weak contenders a legal window to drag the party to court.

The moment those results are finally announced, even people who genuinely lost the primary elections may head straight to court, not necessarily to argue that they won, but to challenge the process used in declaring the results.

Their argument will be that APC, breached both the Electoral Act, the APC Constitution, and the party’s nomination guidelines, all of which mandates that primary election results must be declared at the venue where the election was conducted, by the Electoral Committee Chairman who supervised it. Reference can easily be made to Article 20.4 of the APC Constitution and Section 9(ii)(e) of the APC nomination guidelines.

And when these matters get to court, the focus may no longer be on who actually won or lost. The real issue will become whether APC followed its own rules and due process or not.

Sometimes, no matter how smart a system thinks it is, it cannot fool everybody all the time.

It's about to start. Let's keep our fingers crossed

Let the implosion and katakata begin. Apc is going down

nairalanda1:
Anybody wanting to complain about Dangote, should first blame themselves for opposing subsidy removal

Nigerians have always opposed subsidy removal since the 1980's, because 'the poor have to breathe'. The problem is, it created the environment where the only person that could build a refinery was a Dangote. A guy with a lot of other lucrative businesses that could be used as collateral should price controls inherent in subsidy kill the refinery.

It also damaged our four refineries...because everything that is in a refinery comes from oversease, so it would cost far more to keep a refinery working. Subsidy first damaged the refinery producing capability, plus the subsides themselves could never make up for the loss in potential profits. That's how we lost our refineries. Add the fact that it provided fertile ground for corruption.

If you want to blame Dangote and company, you might want to think back to 2012. Yes, you supproted tinubu and buhari back then, along with Occupy Nigeria. Some of us sane Nigerians, including those who didn't support the government then, saw the light, but we were too few. Now Dangote has a monopoly, and it is going to take some years before other refineries are up and running.

There is always a reason for some decisions, not everything is 'Government is oppressing us'. Had subsidy gone in 2012, by now we would have had more refineries working.

Good morning bro. How market

Obi and Kwankwaso

Kai. Chai. Nigeria is finished. Peter Obi please come and rescue us.

simpleseyi:
The level of joblessness in the North is unbelievable

Na so e Tek pain you? Hmm your tears are delicious

I will vote for Obi over and over again

Tinubu should resign as soon as possible. He has failed to protect the lives of it's citizens

If Mancity fails to win this match, then congratulation in advance to Arsenal

Let the implosion begin. It's time for them to have a taste of their own medicine

The way Apc will implode from inside will be mind blowing. Those that are being denied ticket will work against the Apc secretly

It's because Obi is a movement

Yarimo, Helinues, LegendHero, FreeStuffsng, Okoroawusa will not sleep well tonight

Mancity will win today's game and there's nothing Arsenal can do about it

Hmm. Obi our incoming president is giving some people serious nightmare. The eat, sleep, talk, breathe Obi. A day cannot pass without them mentioning Obi. How is his attire any body's business.

They don't even give Tinubu the kind of attention they give to Obi. They monitor the daily life and routine of Obi just for something to talk about

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Tinubu has 33 Governors and majority of the house. Why is he still afraid of ADC

Why is he always on black. The kind places where these people belong to is strong oo

Amupitan must go. He is bias and working for Tinubu

Okay na. Prophecy about to be confirmed. Obi/Kwankwaso ticket.

Tinubu doesn't know what's coming for him

success1smyn:
Calm down. Sanwoolu is not seeking reelection.

He might be seeking for senate

Excellent93:
Omo massive unemployment
First time to comment
God did
Happy new month everyone

I wish you the same brother