The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to de-register more political
parties to sanitise Nigeria’s electoral system.
Mr Nwachukwu Eze, the Chairman of Ebonyi Chapter of APC made
the call in an interview on Monday in Abakaliki.
Eze said that the de-registration process should continue
until the country has a maximum of six political parties to ensure that the
electoral space was not ‘unnecessarily congested’.
“We applaud INEC for doing the needful as such
de-registration had been overdue.
“We had a situation where few individuals or family members
put-up papers and register with INEC but do not exist in states or anywhere in
the country.
“They do not have offices, membership bases, structures and
one person in most cases, is the chairman, secretary and other members of the
executive.
“INEC has presently decided to sanitise the system and this
can be likened to the deleting of unwanted files in a computer for it to have
enough storage space,” he said.
The chairman said that such de-registration would sanitise
the electoral process, especially by eliminating complexities recorded during
voting.
“This decision will make logos of political parties appear
bold on ballot papers and make voters have enough space to thumb-print.
“When we have over 90 political parties on a ballot paper,
the illiterate voters would be confused on how to thumb-print,” he said.
He urged INEC not to be distracted by complaints over the
de-registration, advising it to ‘shut its ears’.
“There is no case of victimisation in the decision as the
affected parties know they are not in existence.
“A situation where some parties will poll over 10million
votes in a general election, while others will not have up to 1, 000 votes in a
country of over 120million people is appalling.
“INEC has an assemblage of the best lawyers in the country
either as staff or consultants and its reputation will make it shun acts that
will be subjudice before the court.
“There is no order restraining INEC from implementing the
decision and it is only when such is obtained that the issue of subjudice will
arise,” he said.
The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, had on Thursday
announced de-registration of 74 political parties for failing to meet
Constitutional requirements for them to exist as political parties in the
country.
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