Electoral Act: Supreme Court reserves judgment in INEC, SDP, Youth Party appeals

The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, reserved judgement successful 3 antithetic appeals filed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, against a Court of Appeal judgement voiding parts of the Electoral Act 2026 dealing with governmental enactment primaries and rank registers.

Social Democratic Party, SDP, and the Youth Party, YP, besides filed abstracted appeals against INEC implicit the decisions of the Court of Appeal successful their cases.

The appeal, marked SC/CR/495/2026, arose from a suit filed by the Zenith Labour Party, ZLP, astatine the Federal High Court, Abuja, challenging provisions of the Electoral Act which the enactment contended were inconsistent with the 1999 Constitution.

A seven-man sheet of the apex court, presided implicit by Justice Adamu Jauro, reserved judgement aft proceeding arguments from the parties.

INEC, done its Counsel, Dr Alex Izinyon, SAN, is the appellant, portion the Zenith Labour Party is the respondent.

In its appeal, INEC urged the tribunal to dismissed the entreaty filed by YP and SDP.

The archetypal suit, marked FHC/ABJ/509/2026, was filed by the ZLP against the disputed provisions of the Electoral Act 2026.

The Federal High Court, Abuja Division, presided implicit by Justice Mohammed Umar, dismissed the party’s enactment successful a judgement delivered connected May 5, 2026.