Ex-lawmakers move to amend summons in suit seeking to deregister ADC, Accord, others

The Forum of Former Legislators has applied for an bid of the Federal High Court successful Abuja to amend its originating summons successful a suit seeking the deregistration of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Accord Party, Zenith Labour Party, ZLP, and Action Alliance, AA, implicit alleged breach of the 1999 Constitution.

The erstwhile lawmakers connected Tuesday sought the bid truthful arsenic to legally accommodate different governmental parties recovered to beryllium successful breach of the provisions of the law.

In a question argued by their counsel, Yakubu Abdullahi Ruba, SAN, the lawmakers insisted that the erring governmental parties needed to beryllium formally made parties to their suit for the judgement successful the suit to beryllium enforced against them.

Specifically, the ex lawmakers urged the tribunal to invoke Order 7 Rule 6 of the Federal High Court Civil Procedure to assistance their petition successful the involvement of justice.

The determination was nevertheless vehemently opposed by the ADC, which told the tribunal that the exertion by the erstwhile lawmakers was incompetent, invalid and liable to dismissal.

ADC, done his counsel, Shuaibu Eneojo Aruwa, a Senior A...