'Faced with two conflicting judgements from the same court, the commission is not in a position to pick and choose which one of them to obey.'
has pledged to appeal a Court of Appeal judgement ordering the commission to enlist 22 political parties that were deregistered., the appeal court president, on Monday, held that INEC had failed to give reasons to the parties on why they could no longer exist.
Some political parties had jointly filed a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/444/2019, to challenge INEC’s decision to de-register 74 parties out of the 91 registered parties that participated in the 2019 general elections. INEC had in February de-registered 74 parties out of the 91 registered parties that participated in the 2019 general elections.
INEC said it is faced with two conflicting judgements from the de-registration of the parties: one affirming the powers of the commission to deregister political parties and the other setting aside the deregistration of ACD & 22 others.
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