18 Political Parties survive INEC hammer.


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 PARTYACRONYM
1.Accord PartyA
2.Action AllianceAA
3.African Action CongressAAC
4.African Democratic CongressADC
5.African Democratic PartyADP
6.All Progressives CongressAPC
7.All Progressives Grand AllianceAPGA
8.Allied Peoples MovementAPM
9.Labour PartyLP
10.New Nigeria Peoples PartyNNPP
11.National Rescue MovementNRM
12.Peoples Democratic PartyPDP
13.Peoples Redemption PartyPRP
14.Social Democratic PartySDP
15.Young Progressive PartyYPP
16.Zenith Labour PartyZLP
17.Action Peoples PartyAPP
18.Boot PartyBT

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