The Supreme Court has upheld the de-registration of twenty-two political parties carried out by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The parties were among the seventy-four scrapped in 2020 by INEC following their poor performances in the previous elections.
Justice Ejembi Eko who delivered judgment in an appeal instituted by INEC against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, voided and set aside a judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja division which had nullified the de-registration.
INEC had on February 6, 2020, de-registered seventy-four political parties for failing to win any political office in the last general election.
The Advanced Congress of Democrats and twenty one other parties sued at the Federal High Court in Abuja to challenge their deregistration by INEC.