Deregistration: Plot to weaken opposition – Olawepo-Hashim

Former statesmanlike candidate, Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has described a Federal High Court ruling ordering the deregistration of 5 governmental parties, including the African Democratic Congress, ADC, and Accord Party, arsenic a crippled to weaken the absorption up of the 2027 wide elections.

Olawepo-Hashim said this successful a connection on Tuesday, lamenting that the bid was a menace to Nigeria’s multi-party democracy.

According to him, the judgement reinforced concerns helium had earlier raised since 2024 astir what helium described arsenic a coordinated effort to weaken absorption authorities up of the 2027 wide elections.

He alleged that caller developments successful the governmental abstraction bespeak attempts to trim governmental contention by weakening absorption parties and their structures.

The Kwara-born person reiterated that absorption governors person travel nether unit to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, portion absorption parties person besides been weakened by interior disputes and enactment crises.

He arsenic accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of implementing an electoral timetable helium claimed is inconsistent with the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2026, alleging that the committee has failed to marque indispensable adjustments contempt ongoing ineligible challenges.

“This judgement is simply a large setback f...