RE: FEDERAL HIGH COURT LOKOJA RULING ON NDC DEREGISTRATION — OUR POSITION REMAINS UNCHANGED

RE: FEDERAL HIGH COURT LOKOJA RULING ON NDC DEREGISTRATION — OUR POSITION REMAINS UNCHANGED

I, Hon. Ahidjo Ibrahim Karlahi, the plaintiff in suit No. FHC/Abj/CS/1115/2026 under Honorable Justice MG Umar of Court 5, Abuja, have taken note of today’s judgment at the Federal High Court in Lokoja purporting to deregister the Nigerian Democratic Congress (NDC). To me, NDC is only being clever by half. This its today’s maneuver changes nothing.

My suit against INEC for the unlawful registration of the NDC remains very much alive and active before the Court. The issues in my case before the court are distinct and untouched by today’s theatrical proceedings. What transpired in Lokoja today is a textbook example of a party attempting to pull a judicial fast one on Nigerians, and on me, hoping to manufacture a fait accompli that would deceive me into abandoning my case or confuse the presiding judge now seized of the matter. Today’s stunt in Lokoja will achieve neither.

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A court that previously ordered the registration of a party cannot, by its own motion or at the behest of that same party, turn around and pronounce its deregistration. That is not judicial reasoning; it is judicial acrobatics, and it will not survive appellate scrutiny. The contradiction speaks for itself. Threatened by our suit, a stage is set in Lokoja to achieve at the Court of Appeal what NDC cannot rectify at the lower court. 

I am not hoodwinked. I am not distracted. And I am certainly not withdrawing.

I have instructed my counsel to proceeds with my case in full force, as though nothing happened – because actually, in law, nothing of substance did.

Signed: 

Ahidjo Ibrahim Karlahi