‘No party is weak’ — APM, ZLP challenge deregistration judgment

By Lawrence Agbo
Leaders of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) have pushed back against recent calls and judicial actions seeking the deregistration of political parties, insisting that no registered party in Nigeria is weak or irrelevant.
The position was made during appearances on Channels Television’s Politics Today, where party leaders reacted to the Federal High Court ruling directing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister several political parties for allegedly failing to meet constitutional requirements.
The National Chairman of the ZLP, Dan Nwuanyanwu, defended the court’s decision, stressing that judicial pronounc...