The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday night de-registered 28 political parties.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Also notable on the list was the Second Republic\u2019s powerful People\u2019s Redemption Party, which in 1979 won Kaduna and Kano States from a rampaging National Party of Nigeria, the forerunner of today\u2019s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n
According to a statement by INEC just a short while ago, the action is an exercise of the Commission\u2019s powers based on the I999 Constitution as amended and the Electoral Act 2010 as amended.<\/p>\n
The delisted parties are:<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 African Liberation Party (ALP)
\n2.\u00a0 Action Party of Nigeria (APN)
\n3.\u00a0 African Political System (APS)
\n4.\u00a0 Better Nigeria Progressive Party (BNPP) 5.\u00a0 Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) 6.\u00a0 Community Party of Nigeria (CPN) 7.\u00a0 Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA) 8.\u00a0 Freedom Party of Nigeria (FPN) 9.\u00a0 Fresh Democratic Party (FDP)
\n10.\u00a0\u00a0 Hope Democratic Party (HDP)
\n11.\u00a0\u00a0 Justice Party (JP)
\n12.\u00a0\u00a0 Liberal Democratic Party of Nigeria (LDPN)
\n13.\u00a0\u00a0 Movement for Democracy and Justice (MDJ)
\n14.\u00a0\u00a0 Movement for the Restoration and Defence of Democracy (MRDD)
\n15.\u00a0\u00a0 Nigeria Advanced Party (NAP)
\n16.\u00a0\u00a0 New Democrats (ND)
\n17.\u00a0\u00a0 National Majority Democratic Party (NMDP)
\n18.\u00a0\u00a0 National Movement of Progressive Party (NMPP)
\n19.\u00a0\u00a0 National Reformation Party (NRP)
\n20.\u00a0\u00a0 National Solidarity Democratic Party (NSDP)
\n21.\u00a0\u00a0 Progressive Action Congress (PAC)
\n22.\u00a0\u00a0 Peoples Mandate Party (PMP)
\n23.\u00a0\u00a0 Peoples Progressive Party (PPP)
\n24.\u00a0\u00a0 Peoples Redemption Party (PRP)
\n25.\u00a0\u00a0 People\u2019s Salvation Party (PSP)
\n26.\u00a0\u00a0 Republican Party of Nigeria (RPN)
\n27.\u00a0\u00a0 United National Party for Development (UNPD)
\n28.\u00a0\u00a0 United Nigeria Peoples Party (UNPP)<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
Pastor Okotie has run for the presidency three times on the platform of FRESH, insisting he is the change that Nigerians desire.<\/p>\n
Days before the 2011 presidential election, he said, \u201cThere is nothing that PDP can do for this country. It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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