After several months of delay, today Wednesday 9 March
2016, members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Socialist Party
of Nigeria (SPN) gathered at the party headquarters in Abuja for a verification
exercise conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in
compliance with an order of the Federal High Court for both parties to seek an
out-of-court settlement of the suit before the court in which the SPN is
challenging INEC's refusal to issue the party its certificate of registration
after fulfilling all legal and constitutional requirements.
With today's
exercise, we are hopeful that the 2-year journey to register a genuine working
class political party that defends the principles and ideas of an egalitarian
society is slowly coming to an end.
We appreciate all SPN NEC members from across the country
as well as working class activists, students, youth, supporters and friends who
have demonstrated uncommon resilience and commitment to this cause.
By March 31st, the suit will come up for mention again at
the FHC. As is now our practice, we shall mobilize to the court again hopeful
that very soon the SPN shall be issued its certificate of registration so that
it can begin to offer genuine political alternative to change-seeking Nigerians
who are already fed up with the rotten status-quo dominated by money-bag
politics and urgently want a way out of the capitalist-induced crisis of mass
poverty in the midst of stupendous wealth.
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