Frontline lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana has faulted the basis on which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deregistered 28 political parties insisting that political parties do not exist primarily to win elections.
Mr Falana, who was responding to questions from Channels Television’s judiciary correspondent, Shola Soyele, said section 78 subsection 7of the Electoral Act 2010 upon which INEC based its action is fraudulent.
Section 78 subsection 7 of the Electoral Act 2010 empowers INEC to “deregister political parties for failure to win presidential or governorship elections or a seat in the National or state House of Assembly.
While condemning INEC’s move and the legality of the section, Mr Falana said sometimes political parties are set up simply to mobilise against reactionary policies of government.
“You may decide, as a political party, for the next four years we are going to wage a war against corruption,” he said.
