Court rejects ex-senator’s bid to join suit seeking ADC’s deregistration

Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court successful Abuja has rejected the bid by a erstwhile legislator successful Bayelsa State, Senator Clever Marcus Ikisikpo, to articulation a suit seeking to barroom the African Democratic Congress (ADC) from participating successful the 2027 wide elections.

Senator Ikisikpo, who precocious represented Bayelsa East Senatorial District successful the Senate, connected Tuesday successful Abuja approached the Federal High Court with a question connected notice, requesting to beryllium made a co-plaintiff successful the ineligible conflict to halt the ADC from participating successful adjacent year’s poll.

Through his lawyer, Mr. Kalu Kalu Agu, the erstwhile legislator filed the question connected announcement for joinder to transportation the justice to let him to articulation those who instituted the lawsuit against the absorption party.

Trouble, however, erupted erstwhile the erstwhile legislators against the ADC stood their crushed successful rejecting Ikisikpo’s connection to squad up with them successful the suit.

Through their pb counsel, Mr. Yakubu Abdullahi Ruba, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), the erstwhile legislators who instituted the suit seeking an bid of tribunal to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister the ADC opposed Ikisikpo’s exertion connected the grounds that helium was not a subordinate of their association.

They besides maintained that his effort to articulation the suit was suspicious and unnecessary.

In the proceedings that followed, Justice Lifu ordered Ikisikpo’s la...