The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday affirmed the deregistration of 32 political parties.
In her judgment, Justice Anwuli Chikere dismissed the suit filed by the parties against the powers of the Independent National Electoral Commission to deregister the political parties.
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The judge held that the commission rightly deregistered the parties in line with the provision of section 225(a) of the Nigerian Constitution.
The political parties were among the 74 that were deregistered by the INEC on February 6, 2020, on the grounds of poor performance at the 2019 general elections.
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The parties had filed their suit last year to restrain INEC from carrying out the exercise when they got wind of the commission’s plan.