Judicial insubordination — Senior lawyer kicks against court judgment on deregistration of ADC, others

Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Jibrin Okutepa, has criticised the Federal High Court judgement ordering the deregistration of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, and different governmental parties, describing the improvement arsenic a lawsuit of judicial insubordination.

Speaking connected Arise Television’s Prime Time programme on Tuesday, Okutepa argued that little courts are bound by instrumentality to obey and enforce decisions of higher courts, irrespective of whether they hold with specified rulings.

According to him, the judgement appeared inconsistent with established judicial hierarchy and the rule that decisions of appellate courts are binding connected little courts.

The elder lawyer stressed that nether Nigerian law, a High Court has a mandatory work to comply with and enforce orders of the Court of Appeal without questioning their correctness.

He maintained that the regularisation of instrumentality requires strict adherence to judicial authority, noting that nary idiosyncratic oregon instauration should situation the decisions of a competent court.

Okutepa’s remarks followed Monday’s judgement by Justice Peter Odo Lifu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, directing the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to deregister the ADC, Accord Party and 3 different governmental parties implicit alleged law breaches.

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