The chairman chosen cargo services, Chief Dr. Patrick Agbato, felicitates with the general public across the country on Christmas and New year celebrations
Chief Patrick use the medium to call on the public to embrace peace and unity with one another in other to keep the country on its feet.
“I don’t believe in religious boundaries, that is why i am surrounded by Muslims and Christians and we live together as brothers and sisters”
He also call on the govt to keep on striving hard to ensure maximum security in other to boost the economic of the country that has been affected the pandemic.
Less than two years after the Independent National Electoral Commission deregistered 74 political parties due to their poor performance in the 2019 general elections, the commission says no fewer than 107 groups have approached it for registration as political parties.
Responding to a Freedom of Information request sent by Sunday PUNCH, the Deputy Director, SERVICOM at INEC, Olayide Okuonghae, said between 2019 and December 14, 2021, about 101 political associations had applied for registration.
The letter read in part, “In reference to your letter dated December 9, 2021, the commission wishes to inform you that from 2019 to December 14, 2021, a total of 101 political associations have forwarded their letters of intent to be registered as political parties.”
Also confirming the development, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, said in an interview with one of our correspondents that INEC could not reveal the names of the associations because they had not been approved as political parties.
He said, “So far, a total of 101 associations have submitted their letters of intent to be registered as political parties. However, a letter of intent does not amount to an application for registration. An association can only be said to have applied when such application is in the prescribed form.
“The INEC designed application form is only issued after an association has received clearance on its proposed name, logo, acronym and address in Abuja and has also paid the required fee of N1m to obtain the form.”
The number of political parties in the country dropped to 18 when INEC deregistered the political parties.
Currently, there are 18 political parties in the country.
INEC had on February 6, 2020 deregistered 74 political parties due to their poor performance in the 2019 general elections and the re-run elections that followed.
INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, said in addition to the extant provision for the registration of political parties, the Fourth Alteration to the Section 225(a) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, empowers the commission to deregister political parties.
During the 2019 general elections, 91 political parties participated in the exercise, while an additional party, Boot Party, was registered based on the order of a court after the election.
Analysts and lawyers were divided over the number of parties on the ballot. Some argued that people had the freedom to register political parties, others believed that having many political parties on the ballot could confuse voters and increase the cost of elections.
“Accordingly, 74 political parties are hereby deregistered. With this development, Nigeria now has 18 registered political parties,” Yakubu had said.
He recalled that between 2011 and 2013, INEC deregistered a total of 39 political parties based on the same provision.
He added, “However, several of the parties challenged the power of INEC to deregister them, particularly on the grounds that the Electoral Act is inferior to the constitution and that deregistration infringed their fundamental rights under the same constitution.
“Subsequently, the courts ordered the commission to reinstate the parties. It was for this reason that the National Assembly amended the constitution to empower the commission to deregister political parties on the following grounds: Breach of any of the requirements for registration as a political party; failure to win at least 25 per cent of the votes cast in one state of the federation in a presidential election or 25 per cent of the votes cast in one local government area of a state in a governorship election; failure to win at least one ward in a chairmanship election, one seat in the national or state Assembly election or one seat in a councillorship election.”
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court on May 7 upheld an earlier judgment of the Court of Appeal which okayed the deregistration of National Unity Party and 73 others.
A renown business man and chairman CEO chosen Cargo Service, Chief Dr Patrick Agbator JP has join the Cue in felicitating with the state governor Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Emir of Kano Alh Aminu Ado Bayero, his clients and the general public on the 2020 Eid Festival.
Patrick who has been known for his indiscrimination between the Muslims and Christian faithfuls calls on the two religious to have peace coexistence.
He then call on the state and federal government to take proactive measures in encountering the deadly covid 19 virus that the country is facing, to ensure Nigerians are back to their day to day activities
The Chairman CEO of AA Ibrahim integrated rice mill industry, Alhaji Abdulkadir Aminu Ibrahim a.k.a Audu Ladiyo has call on Muslim faithfuls to use this holy month of Ramadan period to pray against the pandemic covid19.
Ladiyo made this call during a conference call with news men in Kano, stating that the solution to this pandemic is prayers and seeking for God’s forgiveness.
He then call on well-to-do individuals to assist the less privileged during this lockdown as part of their worship in the holy month of Ramadan.
He also use the medium to call on the state and federal government to work tirelessly in ensuring that the nation is free from the deadly virus.
An Elder-state Man, Chief Dr Patrick Agbator JP has call on Muslim faithfuls to use this holy month of Ramadan period to pray against the pandemic covid19.
Chief Patrick made this call during a conference call with news men in Kano, stating that the solution to this pandemic is prayers and seeking for God’s forgiveness.
He then use the medium to call on the state government to work tirelessly in ensuring that the state is free from the deadly virus.
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