INEC hasn’t rejected UPN’s application – Fasehun

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  Coordinator, Committee for the Resuscitation of the Unity Party of Nigeria, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, has said the Independent National Electoral Commission has not rejected UPN’s application.
  
  Instead, Fasehun, who is also the Founder and President, Odu’a People’s Congress, said the electoral umpire had issued the party with registration form after paying N1m.
  
  He said this at a press conference in Lagos on Wednesday, according to a statement.
  
  Fasehun said, “Rumours have gone to town insinuating that INEC rejected UPN’s application for registration. Quite contrary to what antagonists will want people to believe, INEC has issued UPN with the registration form –upon the payment of N1,000,000.
  
  “We are in the process of registering the party. And we shall keep you posted on developments.
  
  “In the next one month, UPN shall be releasing its list of protem officers for the central national leadership, 36 states and Abuja, 774 local governments and 9,572 wards designated by the INEC. UPN is a moving train.”
  
  He said the promoters of the party would not be stopped by the hostility of antagonists, who had made it their responsibility to embark on “self-serving character assassination of UPN’s protagonists, dead and alive”.
  
  He said the evil antics of such critics had been defeated by the outpouring of goodwill and support from appreciative Nigerians, who he said, had their hopes recharged.
  
  Fasehun added, “In the current political dispensation, disillusion reigns. People wonder if this is democracy. They easily recall that under UPN in the Second Republic, much progress was made. The UPN states did not fall under the plague of misrule and maladministration that gripped other parts of the country.
  
  “The UPN states set the pace. People remember. And when they benchmark what obtains in government today, at the local, state or federal level, against what UPN achieved in only four years, they know our people have the capacity to dispense productive democracy.
  
  “And as the depth of darkness only highlights the brightness of light; so the depression of this current political dispensation holds up the glory of UPN’s past records. People yearn for that lost glory, people yearn for UPN. And we in UPN are here to make a difference. We have an article of faith –we shall not fail, we shall not disappoint. We will walk in the footsteps of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo.”