{"id":28532,"date":"2020-08-10T15:32:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T15:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=28532"},"modified":"2020-08-10T15:32:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T15:32:22","slug":"appeal-court-annuls-deregistration-of-74-parties-orders-inec-to-relist-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/appeal-court-annuls-deregistration-of-74-parties-orders-inec-to-relist-them","title":{"rendered":"Appeal Court annuls deregistration of 74 parties, orders INEC to relist them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The de-registration of 74 political parties by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been annulled by a Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The court, led by Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, gave the ruling on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It set aside a Federal High Court ruling that upheld INEC\u2019s decision to deregister the 74 political parties.<\/p>\n<p>Ruling that the de-registration of the 74 political parties was illegal as it did not follow due process, the Appeal Court ordered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/tag\/INEC\">INEC<\/a>\u00a0to relist them in the list of registered political parties in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<div class=\"abh_box abh_box_down abh_box_fancy\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The de-registration of 74 political parties by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been annulled by a Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja. The court, led by Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, gave the ruling on Monday. It set aside a Federal High Court ruling that upheld INEC\u2019s decision to deregister the 74 political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":14509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1135,251],"class_list":["post-28532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-appeal-court","tag-inec"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Appeal Court annuls deregistration of 74 parties, orders INEC to relist them - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The de-registration of 74 political parties by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been annulled by a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/appeal-court-annuls-deregistration-of-74-parties-orders-inec-to-relist-them\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Appeal Court annuls deregistration of 74 parties, orders INEC to relist them\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The de-registration of 74 political parties by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been annulled by a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/appeal-court-annuls-deregistration-of-74-parties-orders-inec-to-relist-them\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-10T15:32:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/08\/INEC-3-750x472.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"472\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/appeal-court-annuls-deregistration-of-74-parties-orders-inec-to-relist-them#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/appeal-court-annuls-deregistration-of-74-parties-orders-inec-to-relist-them\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Appeal Court annuls deregistration of 74 parties, orders INEC to relist them\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-10T15:32:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/appeal-court-annuls-deregistration-of-74-parties-orders-inec-to-relist-them\"},\"wordCount\":100,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/appeal-court-annuls-deregistration-of-74-parties-orders-inec-to-relist-them#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/08\/INEC-3-750x472.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Appeal Court\",\"INEC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/appeal-court-annuls-deregistration-of-74-parties-orders-inec-to-relist-them#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/appeal-court-annuls-deregistration-of-74-parties-orders-inec-to-relist-them\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/appeal-court-annuls-deregistration-of-74-parties-orders-inec-to-relist-them\",\"name\":\"Appeal Court annuls deregistration of 74 parties, orders INEC to relist them - 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