The appellate court ruled that the trial court improperly assumed jurisdiction and issued the order in an incompetent suit that a non-juristic body had filed. It found no genuine suit to justify the subsequent decision compelling INEC to deregister the political parties in the ADC deregistration matter. As a result, the appellate court ruled that the Federal High Court lacked jurisdiction and merit and should have dismissed the substantive lawsuit. The appellate court affirmed that all five political parties remain duly registered, bringing the ADC deregistration dispute to an end. On June 16, the appellate court stayed the execution of the trial court’s judgment pending the outcome of the appeal.