***Slams Justice Lifu’s action
***Verdict corrected grave miscarriage of justice — ADC
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Luminous Jannamike & Shina Abubakar
ABUJA — The Court of Appeal in Abuja yesterday, vacated the judgment that directed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to deregister African Democratic Congress, ADC, and four other political parties accused of failing to meet constitutional requirements, describing Justice Peter Lifu’s action as judicial rascality, impertinence.
The other parties include Action Peoples Party, APP; Action Alliance, AA; Accord Party, AP; and Zenith Labour Party, ZLP.
Recall that Justice Lifu had given the order to deregister the parties, despite the order made by the appellate court on May 22, directing him to stay proceedings in the case, pending the outcome of an appeal by the parties.
The appellate court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of Justices yesterday, held that the order which the Federal High
