NDC STATEMENT ON COURT RULING. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE.
NDC STATEMENT ON COURT RULING Our attention has been drawn to a ruling by the Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja this morning, wherein His Lordship, Honourable Justice Isah Dashen, gave a ruling on an application filed by an unregistered association known as Peace Movement Party. The public knows that by December 2025, the Nigeria Democratic Congress as an association complained of INEC’s refusal to register us as a political party, whereupon we proceeded to the Federal High Court. The Federal High Court upheld our constitutional right to freedom of association under the Constitution and compelled INEC to register us, which INEC did. Since then, we have started political activities, embarked on the registration of members, held congresses from ward to national levels, held conventions, and concluded primaries to all offices following INEC’s timetable. We have been fully participating in all INEC activities without let or hindrance. NDC also fielded candidates, and fully pa...
A group of Ethiopean bloggers and journalists were detained for nearly three months,haven been charged for having links to an outlawed and planning attacks,says the Judge.The seven bloggers and three journalists were arrested in April ,prompting an outcry from rights groups who said the case was an assault on press freedom.They were accused of planning attacks in Ethiopia and working in collusion with the US based opposition Ginbot 7,labelled by Ethiopian authorities as a terrorist organisation.The Judge said ''They took training in how to make explosive and plan to train others''.The picture above belongs to one o the bloggers Eskinder Nega,his currently serving an 18 year sentence for having links with Ginbot 7,which calls for the violent overthrow of the rulling party.The trial for other bloggers resumes 4th of August.
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