The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal on Friday set aside a judgement of the Federal High Court that deregistered Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC).
Two members of the three-man panel held that the ruling of June 26, 2026, was an abuse of power.
They ruled that the lower court was wrong to sit over appeal of its own earlier judgment of December 10, 2025, which directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to register the NDC.
The two appellate judges also dismissed the adversarial claims over the NDC’s use of a logo said to belong to another political association, the Peace Movement Party (PMP), which was the basis of Justice Isah Dashen’s in December.
However, Justice Okon Abang dissented in the ruling, saying he would have upheld the deregistering of the NDC, a major opposition party under which Nigerian political figure Peter Obi is contesting the presidency in 2027.
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