Legal practitioner Liborous Oshoma has warned that the ADC’s celebration over the Supreme Court ruling may be premature, pointing to a separate and still-active court order from Justice Joyce Abdulmalik that nullified the party’s convention.
Speaking in an interview from 5:35 with TVC, Oshoma said, “The only order now that is subsisting is the order of Justice Abdulmalik yesterday, which nullified the ADC convention and directed the party leadership not to interfere with the executives at the state level in conducting their congresses and conventions. Those are the orders that remain, and INEC will certainly have to recognise the David Mark faction. The order for the status quo has been removed.”
Oshoma acknowledged that the removal of the Court of Appeal’s status quo ante bellum order upon which INEC had previously relied gives the ADC some breathing room.
However, he stressed that the party still faces two unresolved battles at the Federal High Court in Abuja: responding to Justice Abdulmalik’s judgment and addressing the subsisting case before Justice Lifu, both of which must be dealt with before the ADC’s legal position can be considered settled…Read_More…