₦airaland Forum

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to remove the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) from its register of political parties following a Federal High Court ruling that set aside the judgment which had compelled the commission to register the party.

INEC, which had initially rejected the NDC’s application for registration before a December 2025 court judgment directed it to recognise the party, said on Friday that it had applied for the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the latest judgment and would act in accordance with the court’s decision upon receipt.

“We have applied for the Certified True Copy of the judgment. Until we receive it, we cannot be in a position to comment on it. However, the position that existed before the December 10, 2025 judgment was that INEC rejected NDC’s letter of intent to be registered as a political party,” INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Mohammed Kudu Haruna, told Saturday Vanguard.

Justice Isah Dashen of the Federal High Court in Lokoja on Friday set aside the court’s earlier judgment of December 10, 2025, which had directed INEC to register the NDC as a political party.

The court held that the earlier judgment affected the rights of the Peace Movement Party (PMP), which was not joined in the suit despite claiming ownership of the logo relied upon by the NDC in obtaining the registration order.

Counsel to the PMP, C. S. Ekeocha, said the ruling effectively reversed all actions taken pursuant to the earlier judgment.

“The recognition of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, the issuance of its certificate of registration, its inclusion in INEC’s records, and any appearance on ballot papers arising from that judgment must be withdrawn pending the final determination of the substantive suit,” he said.

Ekeocha added that the court ordered all parties to return to the position they occupied before the December 10, 2025 judgment and directed that all necessary parties be joined to enable the substantive issues to be fully determined.

He also clarified that the substantive suit remains pending before the Federal High Court and has not yet been decided.

With the matter now returning to the trial court for a fresh hearing, INEC is expected to restore the status that existed before the December 2025 judgment, pending the final determination of the case.

esnbrutality:
I pity SW after TINUBU is booted out.

It will be so disastrous

FreeStuffsNG:
Dickson is a lawyer and Senator yet could not do due diligence before buying a damaged 'court-contraband' good.
Smh.

All the info have been in public domain since last year!

Sannisege:
Pity yourself Oga. A Yoruba man will be vice president immediately after Tinubu.

fergie001:
He didn't buy it.
The judgement is defective but the registration process is fishy. However, the judgement in itself will be stayed.

Image123:
We warned several times about things like this but Obi refused to look before leaping. NDC had numerous court cases before Obi. Everything about them was by court order. Na still Tinubu dem go blame, SMH.

DatNiggaDaz:


There is no pathway to another round of snatching and grabbing from the faaake certttifficcate hollldderr and the glutonous family with a Jezebel as a concubine

commoditiesnig:
Exactly! Why join a party that was registered by COURT ORDER.. that alone was a RED FLAG for any intelligent politician

Sannisege:
Pity yourself Oga. A Yoruba man will be vice president immediately after Tinubu.

Cajal:
Day dreamer
You said worse when Bhukari was there
Southwest became president
If you people fall asleep again
By 2031 after PBAT...
Seyi makinde is coming as vice president to RIBADAU
...the most sophisticated region is ever ready to grab power
Kiss the truth
NDC problem is predictable even before the agulu fraud and the dubious political sharia man moved to the 🥳

kingbee90:
That statement by a certain con man " I fought against military oppression during the NADECO era" is the biggest lie and scam of this century.

favor914:
Most probably during the NADECO era u were still playing around with your Superman pant, without shirt, rolling your tire as your automobile?

seunmsg:
It’s somehow funny sha. We all agree the first judgement that ordered INEC to register NDC is defective. INEC knew this and that’s why that made it very clear on their website that the party is registered based on court order only.

Now, is it really possible for an High Court judge to sit and withdraw or review his own judgement? Are there precedents in that regard? Whatever defect that’s in the original judgement, I would have thought it’s only a superior court that can remedy the case.

fergie001:
Any Court of public record can review its own judgement.
Court can review their judgement when there was a denial of fair hearing wrong service addresses or processes, judgement with suppressed facts, judgement delivered if the Judge discovers it lacked jurisdiction. However, the fatal decision here is that PMP was not a Party to the suit.

The Appeal Court will likely stay the decision but again something is understandably wrong with NDC registration process.