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Three years ago, we traversed the length and breadth of the beautiful Kaduna State carrying not merely a political message, but a conviction. We knocked on doors, stood beneath scorching suns, spoke in crowded markets, villages and quiet courtyards, and sold a candidacy we genuinely believed in. We told the good people of Kaduna State that Senator Uba Sani could be trusted.
Today’s Federal High Court judgment ordering INEC to deregister the African Democratic Congress is difficult to understand as anything other than politically engineered judicial violence against democratic pluralism. The reported reason for the judgment is that the ADC failed to meet the constitutional threshold for continued registration as a political party. But that is plainly false.
The judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja Division, delivered by Justice Peter Lifu in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/2637/2025, ordering the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and four other political parties, has triggered understandable outrage within legal and political circles.
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