The Supreme Court has affirmed the Independent National Electoral Commission's power to deregister 22 political parties.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had on February 06, 2020 de-registered 74 parties for “failing to meet the criteria provided for by section 225(a), (b) & (c) of the 1999 constitution (as amended)”.

The INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu said the affected parties failed to meet the criteria provided for by section 225A of the 1999 CFRN (as amended):

"The Independent National Electoral Commission shall have power to deregister a political party for: “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”.

He said that similarly, following the conclusion of the 2019 general election, including court-ordered re-run elections arising from litigations, the commission was able to determine the performance of political parties in the elections. He stressed that the parties were also assessed on the basis of their performance in the Area Council elections in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) the only Local Government elections which INEC was empowered to conduct.

Aggrieved by INEC's decision, 22 of the deregistered 74 political parties approached the Court. However, Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court agreed with INEC and dismissed the suit on the grounds that they failed to prove their case.

The appellate Court in August 2020, citing Section 40 of the 1999 CFRN reversed the decision of the Court below, insisting that INEC ignored due process.

Consequently, the court ordered that the appellants should be listed as political parties in the country.

It is the decision of the Court of Appeal that INEC appealed at the Supreme Court, in an appeal marked: SC/485/2020.

Supreme Court upholds INEC’s de-registration of 22 Political Parties.

The Supreme Court has upheld the de-registration of 22 political parties carried out by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC.

The parties were among the 74 scrapped in 2020 by INEC following their dismal performances in the previous elections.

Delivering judgment in an appeal instituted by INEC against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ejembi Eko voided and set aside a judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja division which had nullified the de-registration.

Justice Eko held that the Court of Appeal on its own (suo motu) raised the issue of lack of fair hearing in favor of the 22 scrapped parties and arrived at a conclusion without hearing from other parties in the matter.

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Names of the 22 Political Parties
Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD)
Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party (ANDP)
All Blending Party (ABP)
All Grand Alliance Party (AGAP)
Alliance of Social Democrats (ASD)
Change Advocacy Party (CAP)
Democratic People’s Congress (DPC)
Green Party of Nigeria (GPN)
Masses Movement of Nigeria (MMN)
Mega Party of Nigeria (MPN)
New Generation Party of Nigeria (NGPA)
Nigeria For Democracy (NFD)
Peoples Coalition Party (PCP)
Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA)
People for Democratic Change (PDC)
Young Democratic Party (YDP)
Re-Build Nigeria Party (RBNP)
Save Nigeria Congress (SNC)
Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN)
United Democratic Party (UDP)
United Patriots (UP)
We The People of Nigeria (WTPN)

And non of these parties are supporting an ibo man 4 presidency 2023
No mkpurumiri will ever near asorock

All Blending Party (ABP)

On a lighter note,
This was the first thing that came to all of our minds @[b][/b] when we came across that party name....

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Anything to move our darling nation forward is all we want

no, it isnt

.......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”.

Anything to move our darling nation forward is all we want @[/b].
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Anything to move our darling nation forward is all we want @[b][color=#006600][/color].

Nigeria will succeed.

GOD bless all sane, honest and hardworking Nigerians.

God bless Nigeria.

Mushroom parties created either for personal purposes or a drain on taxpayers wealth. Let them coalesce into real parties, not insatiable opinions based on fanthomness and vendetta.

You mean this case is still on?

N

Ok

Ndjf

O pari.

Their 4 ,4 years 419 scam business of endorsing the highest bidder on paper has ended.

On the mandate of Asiwaju Tinubu I stand.

Good decision. Those mushroom political parties should go and rest instead of wasting spaces on the ballot paper.

See party names sef

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Anything to move our darling nation forward is all we want @[/b].
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Anything to move our darling nation forward is all we want @[b][color=#006600][/color].

Nigeria will succeed.




GOD bless all sane, honest and hardworking Nigerians.

God bless Nigeria.

This your chorus ehn. . . .hahahahaha the hustle is real.

All thid mushroom party. Abeg you guyz should link me up for any kind of job.. I have been at home for the past 3 months now without job, everywhere I have gone to, have said they will call me back, but till now they haven't.. I'm a resident of River state.. 08117547742

Normally, as a CHAIRMAN of .."COMMENTS READERS ASSOCIATION OF NAIRALAND" (CRAN) I don't normally like to comment.
However, in this Matter INEC is 100% right. What is aim of having a very long Ballot Papers filled with useless names..
To INEC I said., TRUL,Y I KOWTOW IN YOUR POWWOW . CARRY ON

Name No go Finish Party (NNFP). This is the name of the new party in town now.

List of Registered Political Parties

Total : 18

Accord (A)
Action Alliance (AA)
Action Democratic Party (ADP)
Action Peoples Party (APP)
African Action Congress (AAC)
African Democratic Congress (ADC)
All Progressive Congress (APC)
All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA)
Allied Peoples Movement (APM)
Boot Party (BP)
Labour Party (LP)
National Rescue Movement (NRM)
New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP)
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
Peoples Redemption Party (PRP)
Social Democratic Party (SDP)
Young Progressives Party (YPP)

Young democractic party... I thought this was the party Chief Ifeanyi won the senate seat with?

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All Blending Party (ABP)

On a lighter note,
This was the first thing that came to all of our minds @[b][/b] when we came across that party name....

Party for Alcoholics