ADC Supreme Court victory pregnant with risks – Mahdi Shehu

A nationalist commentator, Mahdi Shehu, has cautioned the African Democratic Congress (ADC) against celebrating excessively aboriginal pursuing a caller Supreme Court judgment.

In a station shared connected his authoritative X grip connected Thursday, Shehu described the party’s tribunal triumph arsenic large with risks and warned that it could go a trap if the enactment relaxes.

“ADC, its members and sympathisers whitethorn person crushed to observe today’s Supreme Court judgment,” helium wrote.

“But looking person astatine the stakes, the judgement is large and a trap acceptable for the ADC to relax.”

He explained that the ruling is not the last connection connected the matter, noting that the Supreme Court judgement is connected interlocutory entreaty and not a last judgement connected the substantive suit.

According to him, the ineligible conflict is acold from implicit arsenic the Federal High Court volition proceed to perceive and find the substantive suit.

Shehu besides pointed to the choky docket of the electoral body, stressing that “INEC timetable is time-bound, strict and irreversible due to the fact that it is guided by the provisions of the Electoral Act.”

He warned that much ineligible hurdles are apt ahead, particularly if either faction progressive successful the quality loses astatine the little court.

“If either Nafiu oregon David Mark radical loses astatine the Federal High Court, an entreaty to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court is inevitable,” helium said.

He added that adjacent if ADC e...