Ade Adesomoju, AbujaThe Reform and Advancement Party has sued the Independent National Electoral Commission for deregistering it. RAP is among the 74 political parties deregistered by INEC on Thursday for their poor performance in the 2019 general elections. The party, along with its National Chairman, Dr Nonyerem Davidson, and its National Youth Leader, Alexander Ocheinu, on Monday, jointly filed the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/129/2020 before the Federal High Court in Abuja to challenge its deregistration. The party urged the court to nullify its deregistration and restore it as a registered political party. The plaintiffs’ lawyer, Kingdom Okere, of Prima Facie Chambers, argued that the party was not given a fair hearing before INEC took the decision to deregister it.

Source: Punch February 12, 2020 05:01 UTC