Elections: Nigerian govt not responsible for high costs of political parties' forms - ECOWAS Court

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The plaintiffs had told the court that poor people were being excluded from political participation through the imposition of outrageous costs of nomination and expression of interest forms on pollical aspirants by political parties.

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The Nigerian government is not directly responsible for the “outrageous” cost of nomination and declaration of interest forms imposed on political aspirants by their political parties, theThe court acknowledged that the facts presented by the plaintiffs pointed to “a restrictive practice by political parties in imposing exorbitant fees to secure party nomination to contest for some important national electoral positions”, but said, “the impugned practice is not directly attributable to the...

The practice encourages the seizure of the political space by moneybags who become godfathers that handpick who run for elections and expect their preferred candidates who win the election to take instructions from them on assuming office.

The applicants, through their lawyers, argued that it amounted to “a gradual and systematic entrenchment of plutocracy, a government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich to the exclusion of the poor and middle classes.” This, they added, “is a gradual and systematic entrenchment of plutocracy, a Government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich to the exclusion of the poor and middle classes”.While agreeing with the applicants that the high cost of obtaining the forms were restrictive, the government sued as the defendant in the suit could not be blamed for it.

“minimal responsibility to monitor the activities of the political parties” adding that the current mandate “clearly excludes control over the levying of fees by the political parties against those who expressed interest and picked their nomination forms to be sponsored by them.”The court agreed with the respondent when it asserted that “there is no legal basis, as of now, that vests the respondent with the authority to control the charging or capping of nomination fees by political parties.

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