Pressure from high quarters is said to be mounting on the principal officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to register Team New Nigeria (TNN) as a political party in Nigeria.

In a statement made available to the press and signed by the TNN spokesperson, Dr. Mohammed Adah Shaibu, the political party had applied for registration since 2024.

The spokesperson said the application for registration has been submitted to INEC and was acknowledged since May 27, 2024.

He expressed dismay that since the submission of the application for registration, INEC only wrote an acknowledgment letter promising to notify them when the registration portal will be opened for submission of application and documentation, and all efforts made to remind the INEC chairman, Professor Yakubu Mahmoud, of the intendment of the constitution and the Electoral Act has proven abortive, despite the passage of the 90 days threshold, the period within which the commission?s guidelines mandatorily required him to respond to such letter of intent.

He queried the commission ?for how long should we wait, to get registered? Our presence is all over the country and we have limited time to deliver our manifestos to the electorates.?

The publicity secretary stated that the INEC chairman is said to be resisting the pressure from what he described as ?high quarters? not to register TNN as a political party.

?There is no doubt that INEC is under tremendous pressure, from both the card-carrying APC members of the commission and their collaborators who are mortally afraid of the TNN, and who will want the electoral body to commence, right now, the process of rigging the 2027 election in their favour. (Blueprint)