INEC spares 18 political parties

Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Following an assessment of the 92 political parties in Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Thursday, said only 18 political parties survived, including one registered after the elections and another that obtained a court order to avoid being deregistration.
At a press conference in Abuja, Mahmood Yakubu, INEC Chairman, announced that the commission decided to re-register 74 of them.

Yakubu said the affected parties failed to meet the criteria provided for by section 225A of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

The conditions, according to the said section, include: “breach of any of the requirements for registration as a party, failure to win at least 25 percent of the votes cast in one state in a presidential election or 25 percent of the votes cast in one local government area, and failure to win at least one ward in a Chairmanship election, one seat in the national or state assembly election or one seat in a councilorship election.”

Here are the remaining 18 parties:

S/No.	NAME OF PARTY	ACRONYM
1.	Accord Party	A
2.	Action Alliance	AA
3.	African Action Congress	AAC
4.	African Democratic Congress	ADC
5.	African Democratic Party	ADP
6.	All Progressives Congress	APC
7.	All Progressives Grand Alliance	APGA
8.	Allied Peoples Movement	APM
9.	Labour Party	LP
10.	New Nigeria Peoples Party	NNPP
11.	National Rescue Movement	NRM
12.	Peoples Democratic Party	PDP
13.	Peoples Redemption Party	PRP
14.	Social Democratic Party	SDP
15.	Young Progressive Party	YPP
16.	Zenith Labour Party	ZLP
17.	Action Peoples Party	APP
18.	Boot Party	BT

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