A Federal High Court in Abuja will on July 29th decide if the Independent National Electoral Commission erred by de-registering the Fresh Democratic Party.
At the resumed hearing of the case, counsel to the Fresh Democratic Party, Mister Fred Agbaje argued that even though the electoral body has a supervisory and regulatory power over political parties in the country, the body went outsides its powers in delisting the party.
He told the court that the party is a legal entity with civil rights and obligations and as such the commission has no power to delist it.
In his response, counsel to the Electoral Commission, Mister Ibrahim Bawa, argued that by virtue of Section 2289 of the Constitution, INEC has the right to delist parties.
He asked the court to hold that the Fresh Democratic Party failed to comply with the provisions of the Electoral Act, therefore the de-registration was in order.
