Politics
Court bars INEC from deregistering 31 political parties
The Federal High Court’s Justice Anwuli Chikere, on Monday, in Abuja restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from de-registering 31 political parties.
Justice Chikere, in her ruling, said having failed to counter the application by the applicants, the affected political parties had the legal right which must be protected.
Newsmen report that in an interlocutory motion with suit number: FHC//ABJ/ CS/444/19 between Advanced Congress of Democratic (ACD) and 2 others Vs. Attorney General of the Federation and another (INEC), the applicants had on Oct. 30, 2019, approached the court.
Recall that INEC had, on Feb. 6, deregistered 74 political parties .
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