De-registration: Court may quash 2015 general elections – PRP

The Delta State chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party, Comrade Emmanuel Igbini, on Tuesday said the non-inclusion of three political parties by the Independent National Electoral Commission in the forthcoming general election may affect the outcome of the contest.
The parties, according to Igbini, are the Hope Party, the Fresh Party and the Young Democratic Party.
The three parties were de-registered alongside 15 others, including the PRP, during the build up to 2015 general election by the commission.
Igbini said INEC had ipso-facto incurred the wrath of the court, having jettisoned the judgements that ordered it to accord them full recognition.
Comrade Igbini, who stated this in Asaba, the capital of Delta State, said the commission “unlawfully, wickedly and gruesomely” de-registered some parties, maintaining that the whole elections may be nullified after April 11.
According to him, a Federal High Court in Abuja recently ordered the commission to accord the Young Democratic Party the full recognition as a registered political party in Nigeria, which the commission is yet to obey.
He said: “Section 78(4) of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended), which the court relied, is what some persons are waiting to catch on shortly after a winner must have emerged for March 28 presidential election.”
Igbini however ruled out the possibility of his party, under its National Leader, Alhaji Babarabe Musa, which adopted President Goodluck Jonathan at its National Executive Council meeting as its sole candidate for the presidential election, of dragging INEC to court for unlawfully excluding PRP from the elections.
He said: “PRP’s decision, under our National Leader, Alhaji Babarabe Musa, to adopt President Jonathan was based on national interest to guarantee the corporate existence of Nigeria and not for naira and kobo as being speculated in some quarters.”