Twenty two deregistered political parties have on Thursday submitted letters of notice to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of their preparedness to conduct primaries for the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State.
However, security operatives barred national chairmen of the parties from gaining access into INEC ‘ s premises.
The intervention of the Special Assistant to the INEC chairman, Abdulrasheed Mohammed, eased the tension, as he asked them to delegate two people to submit their letters.
The 22 parties, had in court challenged their deregistration by INEC, said the Appeal Court ruled against their deregistration.
Spokesman of the national chairmen who is the National Chairman of the People for Democratic Change (PDC), Barrister Benjamin Igwe, displayed copies of the letters with INEC’s acknowledgement stamp saying, “the reason we came in group to submit the notice is because in the past eight months, we have been making attempts to serve INEC our letters and to participate in the Ondo and Edo states governorship elections and other by-elections but the commission had always rebuffed us. Each time we went they said we have been deregistered.”
