By JOSEPH ERUNKE

ABUJA—THE Democratic Front for a Peoples Federation, DFPF, the political party of Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has been de-registered by Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

DFPF is one of the two parties delisted, yesterday, as INEC continued its cleansing assignment involving non-performing political parties. The other party affected by the commission’s latest sledge hammer is Change Advocacy Party, CAP.

The development brings the number of  political parties de-registered so far to 38.

*Prof Soyinka

Mr. Kayode Idowu, Chief Press Secretary  to INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, who confirmed the development to newsmen in Abuja, said that the action was taken based on a meeting held by its top officials on February 5, this year.

He said more parties would still be de-registered as the commission continued to review the performance of the parties. According to INEC, the affected parties did not meet the requirements stipulated by the Electoral Act 2010 as amended and had failed to win any electoral position.

It will be recalled that INEC had late last year, deleted 36 political parties, an action the affected parties said was as illegal and dragged the commission to court to seek redress.