The African Action Congress (AAC) has described the delisting of 74 political parties by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as another political illegality in the current democratic dispensation.
Mr. Kunle Wizeman Ajayi, Acting Chairman of AAC, Lagos State chapter, expressed disappointment that INEC could not provide comprehensive explanation for deregistering some of the parties.
Ajayi, a labour activist and General Secretary, United Action for Democracy (UAD), expressed surprise that INEC included radical political parties like the National Conscience Party (NCP) and the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN).
According to him, “For us at Lagos AAC, we reject this illegality. It is against the spirit of democratic and inconsistent with the 1999 constitution.
“Nigeria democracy should grow to the point of even having independent candidates, instead of shrinking platforms.”
Ajayi, former Director of Mobilisation of the National Conscience Party (NCP), said: “It is not a must that every one out of millions must go to the major parties.”
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The AAC chieftain, a former NCP Director of Mobilisation, maintained that the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi “and other real democrats have fought for unlimited democracy and no one has a right to reverse such victory except the Supreme Court.
“We call on INEC to reverse this illegality and we call on radical parties that got registered to challenge this misnomer in court and at public opinion.
“We in AAC will stand in solidarity with all oppressed parties unconditionally and we will ever defend unlimited democracy.
“We call on INEC to face its internal irregularities that have produced fake results and electoral hazards instead of victimising parties that do not have rogues who are able to steal from our commonwealth to build party structures.
“We call on AAC members to give unconditional solidarity to all parties of the oppressed. We have a world to win together!”
