One of the political parties deregistered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Thursday said the commission can’t at this period deregister it because such action will preempt the Supreme Court decision.
A statement signed last night in Abuja by the ACPN’s National Chairman, Alhaji Ganiyu Galadima, described his party’s inclusion in the deregistration as “callous, pre-judicial and a contempt of the Supreme Court.”
The statement described as shock the news of its deregistration.
“The news of the deregistration of 74 political parties by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) came to us as a rude shock. Also worrisome was the inclusion of our Party, the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) in the list despite being in the Supreme Court with the INEC.
“Our paaarty considered the deregistration of the ACPN in the circumstance as callous, pre-judicial and a contempt of the Supreme Court that is expected to fix a date for the judgement on the matter of being unlawfully excluded from participating in the governorship election of Kogi and Bayelsa states.
“The deregistration exercise at this period by INEC of the ACPN is pre-emptive of the outcome of the Appeal against it at the Supreme Court and so the rush to deregistration. The deregistration was in bad faith and unacceptable to us. INEC must wait for the outcome of the Appeal at the Supreme Court before deregistration of INEC.”
