If I want to retire from politics, it is not INEC that will retire me. ChekwasOkorie INEC Nigeria
There is also the provision for deregistration of political parties, which is at INEC’s discretion. In that provision, there are certain conditions that, if political parties were able to meet even one of those provisions, such political party will remain on the register of parties.
This is really a very avoidable controversy INEC has introduced, even when it has so many problems to contend with. Everybody knows that there is no level playing field for the parties to operate to be properly assessed about their performance in election.
But instead of resorting to legal battle, he looked around and found another party that was ready to accept him and used it to win the senatorial seat. That party survived deregistration, only on the ground that Ifeanyi Uba won his election. So, if you constrict the political space, you bring about friction. Those who have ambition will now go for it in a do-or-die manner. This is what INEC has done.
In the last election, UPP was the only party that domesticated the Not too Young to Run law, by giving free tickets to the youths and women. Is that not contributing to deepening the national discourse and democracy, even among the elites, who were not given nomination to contest? There is no gainsaying that this is a setback, because when you join another political party, you cannot go there to dictate terms. You can only go there to see what contributions you can make to grow the party, and if you decide not to go into any political party, you end up contributing to community development and any other thing one can do but not about retiring from politics.
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