Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Nigeria: Parties Set to Battle INEC Over De-Registration - AllAfrica.com

Abuja

Some political political parties yesterday threatened a legal confrontation with the Mugwump National Electoral Committee (INEC) if it transports out the phone call to deregister them. In separate interviews with the News Agency of Federal Republic Of Federal Republic Of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Lagos, the political political political parties said that they would have got no other option than to establish legal action against INEC over the move.

The parties are the African Democratic United States Congress (ADC), National Action Council (NAC), Citizen's Popular Party (CPP) and the Multitude Motion of Nigeria (MMN).

NAN studies that chairmen of some political political political political parties agreed last Tuesday that any political political political political party that failing to win 2.5 per cent of the National Assembly seating in future elections would be deregistered.

The national president of APGA, Head Chekwas Okorie, told newsmen in Abuja, after a meeting with Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan that the determination was aimed at pruning down the political parties.

"We have got agreed that any party that is not able to do 2.5 per cent of National Assembly seating in any election will be de-registered.

"It is the most democratic manner that the de-registration tin be done, and two and a one-half per cent is about 13 seating at the National Assembly.

"So, any party that went through elections and was not able to go back 13 seating in a free and just election will thereafter discontinue to be a registered political party until the adjacent election," Okorie had said.

The newly-elected national president of the PDP, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, last hebdomad said that becoming a one-party state-supported would not harm Nigeria.

Dr Olapade Agoro, the national president of NAC, however, said that some of the parties would be meeting later in the hebdomad on the issue.

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"INEC should be ready for the top conflict of its life, if it darings to disregard the Supreme Court judgment on enrollment of parties.

"The Supreme Court have the concluding say on the issue of enrollment of political political political parties and since it had passed a judgment on the freedom to constitute parties, it cannot be changed," Agoro said.

He pointed out that the 2007 full general elections could not be used to mensurate the public presentation of any political party because of the flaws it recorded. (NAN)

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