APC To Receive N500m Following Court Ruling

Good news for the All progressive Congress Party, APC, as a Federal High Court has ordered the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to pay 500 million naira as damages. Nigerian Communications Commission logo. The NCC will pay APC N500m for damages The federal high court in Lagos which was presided by Justice Ibrahim Buba ruled that the NCC and five others Etisalat, MTN Nigeria Limited, Globacom Limited, Airtel Nigeria Limited and Visafone Communications Limited paid 500 million naira for unlawfully banning the party’s presidential campaign fundraising platform. According to PM News, Justice Buba declared that APC was protected by the constitution to push for the enforcement of its fundamental right. He threw out NCC’s counter-affidavit and ruled that the action of respondents were illegal and unconstitutional. The damages were going to be pay jointly and severally by all the respondents the Judge asserted. The political party had sued the commission, demanding N25 billion as damages, for allegedly banning its presidential campaign fund-raising platform. APC accused the NCC of instructing the 2nd to 6th respondents to discontinue any SMS platform it created for the purpose of getting donations from willing members of the public for its presidential campaign party claimed to have initiated the participatory fund-raising platform as a way of getting members of the general public to contribute N100 to its presidential campaign fund each time they sent APC as an SMS to 35350