A group under the aegis of Democratic Writers Association of Nigeria (DWAN) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of security negligence, saying that the commission still displaces the names and addresses of 92 under-performing political parties which it deregistered recently. The group said in a press statement that “the names, logos, addresses, EXCOS’ particulars and contacts of the 74 deregistered political parties alongside their Manifestoes and Constitutions are still on their Websites @ www.inecnigeria.org or www.inec.gov.ng.”
A statement by the DWAN reads: “But DWAN yesterday raised the awareness of millions of Nigerians on the existence of the de-registered parties on INEC’s Website. The 74 de-registered parties are still listed as part of the 18 currently valid parties as announced by INEC”. It added: “This however shows that INEC doesn’t know what they are doing”.
DWAN’s national coordinator Wole Adedoyin, in the statement made after an emergency meeting of the Association in Ibadan, Oyo State, stressed that the continuous display of information on the deregistered political parties would give the impression that they still exist aside from the security risk for the trustees of the parties.
It would be recalled that DWAN had earlier described de-registration of the affected political parties by INEC as undemocratic and unconstitutional. According to them, “It is wrong for parties to be de-registered on account of their performance during an election, since party that fail to win elections today could do better in subsequent elections.
