ADC: David Mark’s lawyer lauds INEC for swift response to Supreme Court ruling

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Jibrin Okutepa, who served arsenic pb counsel for Senator David Mark successful the ineligible proceedings concerning the enactment of the African Democratic Congress, has praised the Independent National Electoral Commission for adhering to the Supreme Court’s ruling without needing immoderate prompting.

In a connection posted connected his X relationship via @sanjsokutepa connected Friday, Okutepa lauded INEC for proactively restoring the enactment presumption of the ADC connected its portal, alternatively than waiting to beryllium served with the apex court’s judgment.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court instructed David Mark to instrumentality to the Federal High Court for the proceeding and solution of matters arising from the enactment struggle wrong the ADC. This directive followed the earlier ruling of the Court of Appeal, which connected March 12 dismissed Mark’s entreaty against a ruling of the Federal High Court dated September 4.

A erstwhile vice president of the ADC, Nafiu Bala, initiated the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1819/2025, aiming to forestall the Mark-led enactment from presenting themselves arsenic nationalist officers of the ADC. Bala named the ADC, Mark, Rauf Aregbesola (National Secretary), INEC, and Ralph Nwosu, the party’s laminitis and erstwhile nationalist chairman, arsenic defendants successful the case.

In a unanimous ruling delivered connected Thursday, a five-member sheet of the apex court, led by Mohammed Garba, criticised the Court of Appeal’s order, ...