By News Express on 25/03/2013
Views: 3,865
The spirited battle for survival by the African Peoples Congress (APC) today came to end as Nigeria’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) finally rejected its application for registration.
Although the African Peoples Congress (APC) was the first to approach INEC for registration, the commission after, initial grandstanding, appears to have bowed to pressure from the emergent mega party All Peoples Congress, which claimed that the acronym APC is its intellectual property.
The decision to deny the African Peoples Congress registration was communicated to party leaders today via a letter signed by its Secretary, Alhaji Abdullahi Kaugama.
The letter addressed to African Peoples Congress protem chairman, Chief Onyinye Ikeagwuonu, was entitled “Re-Application for Registration as a political party.” The letter said as follows:
“Your application for registration as a political party dated 28th February, 2013 refers. The Commission has observed that your association is in breach of Section 222 (a) of the Constitution of the Federal republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) which stipulates as follows:
“No association by whatever name called shall function as a political party unless; the names and addresses of its national officers are registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission. A close observation of your submitted form PA 1 established that it does not contain the addresses of your national officers as stipulated in the provisions above.
“Consequently, the commission shall not register the proposed African Peoples Congress (APC) as a political party.”
Reacting to the development, Chief Ikeagwuonu in a statement in Abuja dismissed it as “a rape of our democracy which we in APC would resist with everything we have got.”
He reiterated his party’s claim of March 21 that INEC was about to bow to pressure from a “Lagos mafia” to deny his party registration through “black market transaction.”
The African Peoples Congress protem chairman vowed that his party would challenge the decision in court, disclosing that upwards of 30 lawyers have already undertaken to offer the party free legal services in this regard.
•Photo: INEC Chairman Prof. Attahiru Jega.
Source News Express
Posted 26/03/2013 12:25:08 AM
CLASSIFIED ADS
NEMA clears air over alleged killing of 15...
Nigerian student emerges winner in UN Students Conference...
Bleaching can cause cancer, kidney disease: NAFDAC
Forest Guards set to begin operations in Enugu...
2019: Buhari strong enough to run — Presidency...
Saraki urges North-East leaders to make NEDC work...
RIGHTSView: KADUNA’S ANTI-GRAFT WAR
We don’t want Ebola Centre in our area...
Arms Deal: I was given N650m to buy...
CEO’s fate hangs as Uber reviews corporate culture...
Buhari’s approval rating only 57 per cent: Survey...
Court sends 5 Electricity Agency directors to prison...
Attack at NASS: My life in danger — NPA MD, Bala Usman, cries out •Petitions IGP, DSS on safety
UPDATED: Commotion inside Abuja courtroom as DSS re-arrests Sowore
Reps wade into Oraifite killings
Pirates shut down Delta creeks, rape women
N7.2bn fraud: Orji Kalu to file stay of execution, bail applications
N-Power: FG assures payment of arrears December 20
Strike looms in Ogun over minimum wage 
Why I resigned as Plateau PDP chair — Sango
FIRS fails to remit N23 billion tax refund to FG: Audit Report
Edo Assembly: We’ll obey lawful resolution on 14 members-elect — INEC
Bayelsa Transition Committee not meant to probe Dickson — Lyon
Commission lauds psychiatric hospital for innovation in tackling challenges
NUDE PHOTO OF OMOTOLA JALADE-EKEINDE surfaces online (569,105 views)
Nigerian female sex addict opens up, says ‘I like it with both men and women’ (455,340 views)
Shameless Genevieve Nnaji exposes breasts in public (405,123 views)
Finally named: The full list of friends of Nigerian female sex addict who prowled Facebook (339,885 views)
OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU (the one who called himself God) IS DEAD (306,656 views)
10 cars more expensive than Jets (290,320 views)
Igbo scholar disgraces Femi Fani-Kayode •Demolishes claims on Igbo/Yoruba history with facts and figures (260,665 views)
Breaking News: POPULAR REVEREND CONVERTS TO ISLAM in Kaduna (Nigeria) (259,445 views)
OBJ’s son reported dead in Lagos plane crash •Names of more victims emerge (240,900 views)
My wasted years in Olumba Olumba Obu’s Evil Brotherhood (227,411 views)
Lagos plane crash: Journalist releases victims’ names (203,303 views)
THE FINAL DISGRACE: Igbo scholar unleashes more facts about Igbo/Yoruba history, finishes off Femi Fani-Kayode with second article (199,778 views)
