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***Court awards N100m fine against ADC chieftain over suit against judges
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA — The Court of Appeal in Abuja will today hear substantive appeals seeking to set aside the judgment that ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to deregister African Democratic Congress, ADC, and four other political parties.
The appeals will be heard by a three-member panel, led by Justice Abba Mohammed.
The panel had, on June 25, okayed a full-blown hearing of the appeals after house-keeping proceedings that enabled the parties in the matter to identify and regularise all the processes they had filed.
Aside from the ADC, the other parties seeking nullification of the Federal High Court judgment are the Action Peoples Party, APP; Action Alliance, AA; Accord Party, AP; and the Zenith Labour Party, ZLP.
It will be recalled that the Appeal Court had, on June 16, ordered a stay of execution of the
