Appeal Court shifts hearing in suit challenging deregistration of ADC, others to July 7

The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, has shifted proceeding successful an entreaty challenging the deregistration of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Accord Party and 3 different governmental parties to July 7, 2026.

The appellate tribunal on Thursday shifted the proceeding from June 25, 2026, the earlier fixed date, to July 7, 2026, to alteration the parties successful the suit record and speech their processes of arguments for afloat standard hearing.

At Thursday’s proceedings, Musibau Adetunbi, SAN, who stood for the Accord Party, informed the the three-member sheet of justices of the tribunal that the grounds of entreaty and last judgement of the Federal High Court were conscionable obtained on Monday and transmitted to the Court of Appeal arsenic required by law.

The elder lawyer subsequently applied for a abbreviated adjournment to alteration him and others successful the substance record their briefs of statement and speech aforesaid for the substance to beryllium heard.

The exertion for adjournment was not opposed by each different parties, prompting Justice Abubakar Mohammed, presiding judge, to displacement the proceeding till July 7, 2026, by 2:00 pm.

Although, Adetunbi SAN applied for 3 days to record and speech briefs of argument, Justice Mohammed said that immoderate of the justices would beryllium retired of Abuja adjacent week for a peculiar league elsewhere and announced July 7, 2026, arsenic the heari...