Gov Adeleke, Kwara ADC Guber Candidate React To Court Ruling Asking INEC To Derecognize 5 Political Parties
Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State and a former federal lawmaker, who was the spokesman for the 7th House of Representatives, Hon Zakari Mohammed on Monday reacted to the Federal High Court ruling asking the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to derecognize the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Action Peoples Party (APP), Action Alliance (AA), Accord Party (AP), and the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP).
Rep Zakari Mohammed, who is the Kwara State ADC gubernatorial candidate, called the court ruling in question ‘height of judicial rascality’.
‘The so-called deregistration of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) along with other parties by Justice Peter Lifu may yet be the biggest manifestation of Tinubu’s hell-bent bid to undermine the opposition and entrench a defacto one-party state. The judgment is the height of judicial rascality.
The Court of Appeal presided over by Justices Mohammed A. Danjuma, Adebunkunola A. Banjoko, Oyejoju O. Oyewumi had in the suit with docket numbers CA/ABJ/CV/569/2026 and FHC/ABJ/CS/2637/2025 ordered Justice Peter Lifu to stay further action on the matter until the hearing and determination of the Appeal before it. The hearing at the Court of Appeal is scheduled to hold on the 27th of October 2026 and that order was dated 22nd of May 2026.
Nigerians and the international community can see the level of desperation of government controlled by the ruling party to either have their way in the 2027 elections or destroy our democracy that was purchased at a huge cost. Justice Lifu!!
A Justice of particular concern’ he submitted.
Governor Adeleke and Hon Zakari Mohammed shared the same stance on the issue as the governor has also submitted that the Federal High Court ruling breached a higher court’s directive.
Governor Ademola Adeleke has described the ruling as an abuse of court process and a direct violation of a subsisting order of the Court of Appeal.
In a statement issued in Osogbo and made available to Team@orientactualmags.com, the governor said the Appeal Court had made an order for the stay of proceedings by the Federal High Court, expressing surprise that the lower court still proceeded to deliver a ruling on a matter already acted upon by the Court of Appeal.
‘It is on record before Honourable Justice Peter Lifu J that in the record of proceedings of the Court of Appeal of 22nd May, 2026 and which was put before his Lordship as Exhibit MAC 2 the Court of Appeal specifically pronounced that ‘The delivery of the judgment is still part of the proceedings of the Court’ he said.
The governor urged the people of Osun State to stay calm as the Court of Appeal will be taking up the matter tomorrow, Tuesday while declaring that ‘the efforts to stop Osun people from exercising their voting rights will fail by the special grace of Almighty God. The Rule of Law and Humanity shall prevail at the end of the day’.
‘I call on Osun people to remain calm and be assured that our rights will be affirmed and our party, the Accord will be on the ballot on August 15th.
We will not only be on the ballot, we will win overwhelmingly the forthcoming governorship election. We should remain calm and forge ahead with mobilisation of our people.
I also want to assure our people that our campaign kickoff is holding tomorrow as scheduled. They want to distract us. We are going ahead and we are winning this election.
Our lawyers are taking all the necessary steps to right the wrong’ the governor added-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08035023079, 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com. Thank you
