#FRESH TROUBLE For Buhari, Tinubu’s Party •Mega Party May Be Forced To Change Name# There are indications that the INEC may suspend the registration of the new mega opposition party, All Progressives Congress. The decision to halt the registration was reached at a meeting involving the National Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, and other top officials of the commission on Tuesday. It was gathered that besides putting the APC’s registration in abeyance, INEC might write the merging parties on Tuesday, to choose another name. Opposition parties, including the Congress for Progressive Change, Action Congress of Nigeria and the All Nigeria Peoples Party, on June 5, 2013, had written the commission on their plan to merge under a new name, APC. The commission was hinging its decision to suspend the APC’s registration on the separate suits filed by the African Peoples Party and the All Progressive Congress of Nigeria at a Federal High Court, Abuja. A top official of the commission, who spoke in confidence said, “We have put their (merging parties) registration on hold. A letter will be written to them on Tuesday asking them to choose another name. “You are aware that some parties have been fighting over the acronym (APC) and in actual fact, two of them have gone to court to compel INEC not to register opposition parties’ APC. “Although the court has not issued any order, we do not want any problem. That is why we agreed on Tuesday that we should ask the opposition parties to choose a new name.” It was gathered that at Tuesday’s meeting, legal officers of the commission advised that the commission should go ahead to register the mega opposition party as APC since there was no court order that asked INEC not to do so.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 08:24:03 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015