The lingering case between the National Conscience Party (NCP) and the Attorney General of the Federation over deregistration of the party has been listed for hearing on the 23rd of September, 2024.
According to a statement issued on behalf of the party by the National Vice Chairman (South South) Pastor Peters Osawaru Omoragbon, the teeming party members and supporters are requested to attend the hearing in their numbers.
Venue for the hearing with appeal number CA/L/880/22, according to the statement, is Court 1 of the Appeal Court, Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos at 9 o’clock.
It should be recalled that the National Conscience Party founded by the late human rights lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, took the Attorney General of the Federation to court to challenge what it sees as the unconstitutional delisting of the party from the register of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
According to Omoragbon, both INEC and the Attorney General of the Federation lacks the powers to deregister parties as doing so would enfringe on the right of the members to freedom of association and wants the court to declare such deregistration as null and void and unconstitutional.
Omoragbon who was the candidate of NCP in the Edo State Governorship elections in 2016 and 2020 and still nursing the ambition to be Governor of Edo State under the same party God willingly in 2028, therefore called on the members and lovers of democracy to attend the court hearing on September 23.
