The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has revealed its plan to delist weak parties and also review campaign funding. The Commission's Chairman on Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye, who confirmed that INEC will delist weak parties and also review campaign funding at the conclusion of the supplementary elections and petitions filed at various electoral tribunals. He told Punch; 

“The commission is tracking campaign spending by the  parties using its tracking devices. The commission will review the campaign spending of the parties at the conclusion of the current electoral  process.”

He further disclosed that a a review of the performances  of the parties could not be done immediately, because any party stood a chance of victory in the reruns  or at the tribunals.

“The process can only be activated when the commission completes all the supplementary elections and all the election petitions are disposed of. There is a possibility that a party that has not done well in any of the elections may win a seat in the National Assembly or state House of Assembly during the supplementary elections.“At the appropriate time, the commission will review the performances of  the  parties and take a decision on their future.”


https://unclesuru.com/2019/03/30/inec-to-delist-weak-parties-review-campaign-funding/

Hope the bullion vans are taken into consideration sha

But the delisting is a welcome idea because too many political parties without relevance is a waste of time as seen in the presidential election collation and announcement

I don't even think the issue is about delisting. Inec have always make this same threat over and over and I can't remember them carrying it out because even HOPE should have been delisted long ago if they've made good their threat.

Aside that there should be a mechanism in place during the registration of political parties because if there's none, I won't be surprised if by 2023 elections we have over 150 presidential candidates.

Should be done quickly

Inec and their wahala x

This should be a welcome development. Enough of these mushroom parties.

This is a good move, because l can't understand how a party with only 10 votes nationwide will still be allowed to be registered as a party in future elections.

Sure? They have to

Henryodds88:
See below

oga use your rent take do am we no de do

Very good!


Oya let's start the naming and subsequent delisting from here. The following parties, should be affected if not, I won't watch the next Presidential Elections Collation.

Oya. . .


A
AA
AAC
nAPC
nPDP
SNP
BNP
NNNP
KOWA
LALA
NL
ADP
ZAP
SWP
SAP


to be continued.

And relist them for 2023.
So, we could have headlines like "97 parties congratulate buhuri"

Somtin dat's long overdue.
Buh hope they won't delist "weak" parties to relist weaker parties sha.

It will still end in stories. No party will be delisted. Maybe they'll adopt electronic voting instead.

I don't understand why INEC will spend much in printing an A4 paper as ballot paper with more than 70 political parties, at the end everyone that voted ends up voting a maximum of 4 parties.

I think they should delist some. At least, it will reduce the amount FG spends on elections.

They shouldn't just delist but stop future registration of new parties... Mergers may be allowed

Better

The bullion van. If u know u know

Good news. We need a maximum of 10 political parties.

we want only 3 parties pls. d national assembly shd make laws that tiny parties contest in LG elections or state assembly b4 joining D bigger parties or better still , any party without executive offices in 774 LGs shd not b registered

Parties that wasted Nigeria's resources and time......

Especially those one shop parties from my igbos States that doesn't know politics.. Only hatred in their mind

when you post news stop using irrelevant photos to Illustrate the story.

Delisting of weak political parties is not enough. There should be legislation to limit the number of political parties to a reasonably manageable number. Five political parties or at most ten can serve all.

Tampering with our freedom of Association.
INEC cannot arbitrarily delist any political party, except they want to spend all their allocation on legal fees.
They have to set up different criterion that'd would be used to measure the strength of a party. Just like the banking recapitalization.

We lawyers go chop again.

This proliferation of political parties began after Gani Fawehimi won his case against INEC, am I right?

So, I suggest that INEC creates limitations for parties to contest in presidential elections in particular. For instance, parties that want to present candidates for presidential election must have agents present in each ward all over Nigeria.

That way, I don't think more than 10 parties can present candidates. I believe that'll make our presidential elections more mature and less expensive for INEC and Nigeria.

Who agrees with me?

About time. . This mushroom parties contribute in long delay of election result announcement with their zero zero votes