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STATE OF THE NATION: True federalism’ll end secession clamours
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ady Angela Johnson was the presidential candidate of Alliance for United Nigeria, AUN, in the 2019 poll. In this interview, she spoke on the state of the nation and offers the way forward.
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er take on the state of the nation
Nigeria’s current situation calls for concern. From insecurity, infrastructural deficit, wholesale poverty, educational backwardness, disoriented civil service and epileptic policy regime, it is worrisome to put it mildly. I am particularly concerned because the current Nigeria is not the Nigeria of my dream. Over time, we have offered free and sustainable advice to governments which were not adopted by successive governments.
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The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, upheld the Independent National Electoral Commission’s decision deregistering the Alliance for United Nigeria, as a political party.
Justice Ahmed Mohammed in a judgment held that INEC’s decision was “unassailable” as it was in line with the provision of section 225(a) of the Nigerian Constitution.
The judge held that the AUN failed to meet the statutory threshold of the registration requirement for political parties.
He held that having participated in the 2019 general elections and failed to win any seat in either the federal, state or local government levels, INEC was right to deregister the party as stipulated in the constitutional provision.
March 25, 2021 4:04 am
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