INEC has the power to deregister parties — Ekweremadu
The commission had deregistered 74 political parties bringing the total number of parties in Nigeria to 18.
The senator representing Enugu West senatorial district for the fifth consecutive time, explained that a political party must secure at least 25 per cent of votes cast in a state for a presidential election. “The Constitution has been amended, probably they did not have the opportunity of going through what the law says before they went to court, or their lawyers did not advise them properly.
“But if you decide to run for a presidential election as a political party, and you did not make 25 per cent in one state then you are gone. “Let us now say the local government elections, and a party fails to win a council seat INEC can also deregister a party the law is clear,” he said. Mark Adebayo, acting national chairman of KOWA party, explained that his party and 32 others had approached the Federal High Court, Abuja in 2019, to among other things, restrain INEC from deregistering parties pending the determination of the suit.
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