INEC De-Registers 28 Political Parties, Including PRP, NAP, FRESH
December 6, 2012 - 22:24 — siteadmin


The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday night de-registered 28 political parties.
They include Fresh Democratic Party, which was the brainchild of Pastor Chris Okotie; and Nigeria Advance Party, which was started by lawyer and businessman, Tunji Braithwaite, in the Second Republic.
Also notable on the list was the Second Republic’s powerful People’s Redemption Party, which in 1979 won Kaduna and Kano States from a rampaging National Party of Nigeria, the forerunner of today’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
According to a statement by INEC just a short while ago, the action is an exercise of the Commission’s powers based on the I999 Constitution as amended and the Electoral Act 2010 as amended.
The delisted parties are:   
1.  African Liberation Party (ALP)   
2.  Action Party of Nigeria (APN)
3.  African Political System (APS)   
4.  Better Nigeria Progressive Party (BNPP)  
5.  Congress for Democratic Change (CDC)  
6.  Community Party of Nigeria (CPN)   
7.  Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA)
8.  Freedom Party of Nigeria (FPN)   
9.  Fresh Democratic Party (FDP)   
10.   Hope Democratic Party (HDP)   
11.   Justice Party (JP)   
12.   Liberal Democratic Party of Nigeria (LDPN)   
13.   Movement for Democracy and Justice (MDJ)   
14.   Movement for the Restoration and Defence of Democracy (MRDD)   
15.   Nigeria Advanced Party (NAP)   
16.   New Democrats (ND)   
17.   National Majority Democratic Party (NMDP)   
18.   National Movement of Progressive Party (NMPP)   
19.   National Reformation Party (NRP)   
20.   National Solidarity Democratic Party (NSDP)   
21.   Progressive Action Congress (PAC)  
22.   Peoples Mandate Party (PMP)   
23.   Peoples Progressive Party (PPP)   
24.   Peoples Redemption Party (PRP)   
25.   People’s Salvation Party (PSP)   
26.   Republican Party of Nigeria (RPN)   
27.   United National Party for Development (UNPD)  
28.   United Nigeria Peoples Party (UNPP)
"The Commission hereby reiterates its commitment to relating with political parties in accordance with extant laws and for the benefit of our electoral democracy," the statement said.
Pastor Okotie has run for the presidency three times on the platform of FRESH, insisting he is the change that Nigerians desire.
Days before the 2011 presidential election, he said, “There is nothing that PDP can do for this country. It’s abundantly clear that PDP has become politically irrelevant in the sense that they have not been able to proffer solutions to problems that beset our people.
None of the parties could be reached tonight to get their comments to the sudden de-registration in the middle of the night, and what their political options are.  
 
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INEC should deregister more parties. most of them form parties just to collect INECS monetry grant and have not won any seat even Councillorship post.

I think it's better if we have just 3 parties. All these pretenders should be de-registered abeg.

That's good.

Kwa kwa kwa!
Haba!
By 2014. . .they will be re-registered. . .after ghana must go bags have switched corners!

Amen? Ameeeeeeeeeeeeen!!!!!

The Paper Tiger Political Parties that are NOTORIOUS for always endorsing a winning candidate.
Bunch of Confusionists!!

For a moment I thought I saw mad peoples party on the list.

Good riddance to bad rubbish,now Okotie and co can concentrate on their day jobs

They want to steal again

Good step

The solution here is not de-registering the parties but ammending the constitution to accomodate 2 or at most 3 political parties with national appeal as obtained in most democracies around the world. Otherwise I can bet my last kobo that another 47 mushroom political parties are going to crop up before 2015 national elections because the constitution as presently written has already given them express tickets to do so. So why cant we take it from the root?

D same INEC dt deregister dm will re-register dm again come 2014

i think we will get there,gud move by INEC.

more unserius parties should be de-registered. any party that can not win even one local government election shd not b on d list.

This is a nice one from INEC. I have always been worried about the proliferation of the political parties in Nigeria. The number kept increasing every year, obviously for the pecuniary interest of the political class. How on earth would an uneducated woman in a rural area have been able to differentiate between those political parties, with many of them bearing similar names and using almost identical symbols.

Good job, INEC. Well done!

All those de-registered parties should pls join ACN and lets for once in nigeria have a contended election like the US.

*speechless*

is that the death and FINAL BURIAL Rev Kris Okotie's political career or he has another joker by 2015?
Well, i think some of these mushroom kindergarten parties will go to court!

Again i say...

*speechless*

This is a good move from Inec..... Hoping that the same political parties with another acronyms will not be re registered come 2015.

With the nature of our political class, will 2 or 3 parties at most solve our electoral malpractices in Nigeria?

Abeg they should deregister more of those mushroom parties. Most of them don't even have a single ward in any LGA in any state.

I was actully looking for PDP Peoples Democratic Party

At least lawyers go chop,u go see the de-registered parties going to court tomorrow challenging INEC and FG.This country,na wa o.

I understand that some political parties are not worthwhile but let INEC show some credibility before discrediting any party. INEC under Jega is a flaw.

we should have only two parties is the best for us

Better o

INEC got this one right

They are still far from reality,political parties in NGERIA should be reduced to four or five

rasputinn: For a moment I thought I saw mad peoples party on the list.

Good riddance to bad rubbish,now Okotie and co can concentrate on their day jobs

4 a moment i tot i saw peoples democratic party.lol

Nice move by INEC. They should de-register more political parties. It shouldn't exceed five that we have. We all know that there are two major political parties in Nigeria. Besides, can't we have a situation of what is being run in America, where The Republicans and Democrats representing Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were the only political parties that participated in the election. BTW, i thought PDP was going to be on the list. Guess i thought wrong.

nice move

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On what grounds did INEC de-register these parties.

INEC should register Nairaland Garri People's Party - NGPP